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Quote-Unquote Cringe: Kit Zauhar on Her Debut Feature, Actual People | Screen Slate

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“It was super special in the moment. But it wasn’t significant.” So says a character in Kit Zauhar’s first feature, describing a one-night stand in a way Actual People (2021) dares the viewer to apply to the film itself. Zauhar’s film catalogues how insignificant moments tumble into each other and add up to burnout, failure, and a kind of free-floating generational awkwardness among college seniors in New York on the verge of graduation. Shot in August 2019, Zauhar’s accomplished, grungy film has been playing in festivals around the world and is now being distributed by Factory 25. Zauhar plays the Asian-American lead, Riley, in this film she wrote and directed. Riley is someone who has become unlovable, torquing between failure in college, drunken hook-ups, and microaggressed insults that make the film something of cross between a negative Lady Bird (2017) and a co-ed Frownland (2007). Actual People has a relentless quality quite different from most coming-of-age movies. Befitting the

Interview June 23rd 2022 By A. S. Hamrah “It was super special in the moment. But it wasn’t significant.” So says a character in Kit Zauhar’s first feature, describing a one-night stand in a way Actual People (2021) dares the viewer to apply to the film itself. Zauhar’s film catalogues how insignificant moments tumble into each other and add up to burnout, failure, and a kind of free-floating generational awkwardness among college seniors in New York on the verge of graduation. Shot in August 2019, Zauhar’s accomplished, grungy film has been playing in festivals around the world and is now bei

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