Event
Penn Cinema & Media Studies and Annenberg School for Communication present Bad Things with Director Stewart Thorndike in person!
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Stewart Thorndike, 2023, 1h 26m
A group of friends go to a hotel for a weekend getaway and soon discover that women do bad things here.
Q&A w/ Director Stewart Thorndike to follow
Stewart Thorndike is a writer and director who makes feminist genre films. Stewart’s second feature film, BAD THINGS, premiered in competition at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. It stars Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef and Molly Ringwald. Her debut feature, LYLE, is a queer horror film that premiered in 2014 at Outfest and starred Gaby Hoffmann who won the best actress award. Indiewire listed Stewart as one of ten LGBTQ creators on the rise in 2023. Stewart earned her MFA at NYU and is a recipient of the San Francisco Film Society’s Women Filmmaker Fellowship for women in genre.