WAY OUT AHEAD OF US
BY  ROB RICE, 2022

Catalog Number: FTF-164
Length: 87 minutes

A father keeps his terminal illness a secret from his daughter so he doesn’t spoil her plans to move to the city. The man who plays the father has this illness in real life but he and his wife, who plays the mom, never had a child – so an actress was cast to play the one they always imagined.

Directed by Rob Rice
Produced by Matthew Porterfield, Rui Xu, Rob Rice, Mark Staggs
Cinematography by Alexey Kurbatov
Starring Jacob R. Young, Mark Staggs, Nikki DeParis, Tracy Staggs

Festivals: FIDMarseille, São Paulo International Film Festival, Montreal International Documentary Festival, Oldenburg Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival

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PRESS

“One of the strangest, and indeed most powerful, hybrid experiments this year” -Matthew Hayes, POV Magazine

“Raises issues of truth and power, and it is at this intersecAon that the film derives its greatest worth.” -Sofie Cato Maas, Senses of Cinema

“A breath of fresh air: fast, light and capable of knocking things down.” -Jamily Rigonatto, Persona

"A dreamlike lyricism is prioritised over socio-political critique in Rob Rice’s collaboratively-minded doc-fiction portrait of a family facing uncertain futures in the Californian desert." -Carmen Gray, The Film Verdict

“Its nocturnal camerawork sets a dreamlike and poetic tone.” -Wanderley Caloni, Cinema Aqui