Ghostlight

STARRING

Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Tara Mallen and Dolly de Leon

DIRECTED BY

Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson

WRITTEN BY

Kelly O'Sullivan

Selected for Sundance Film Festival 2024 and SXSW 2024, Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan's moving, gently comic collaboration is about the power of live theater to make sense of our offstage dramas and personal narratives. Ghostlight centres on Dan (Keith Kupferer), a melancholic middle-aged construction worker grieving a family tragedy. Cut off from his devoted wife, Sharon (Tara Mallen), and talented but troubled daughter, Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer), Dan finds comfort and community in a misfit company of amateur actors. While moonlighting in a low-rent production of Shakespeare's most protean tragedy, Dan is forced to confront his buried emotions. Real-life family Mallen, Kupferer, and Mallen Kupferer bring tenderness and authenticity to this poignant portrait, while Dolly de Leon " last seen stealing the scene in Triangle of Sadness " is hilarious as Dan's irascible, improbable co-star.