Social Butterfly is an engaging story about a 30-year-old american woman who crashes a french teenage girl's (Chloe) birthday party. When Chloe tires of her friends and the social pressures they bring with them, she turns to the one person she doesn't know at her party, the American. This film gives you a glimpse into relationships and the complexity of trust, friendship, and self-illumination.
The short film was directed by Lauren Wolkstein and was filmed in France. She received her Bachelor's degree in computer science, but soon found her passion in filmmaking. After finishing her masters in film at Columbia, she was named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2013 by Filmmaker Magazine. Social Butterfly premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and has showed at the Indie Memphis Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, the Nashville Film Festival, Out on Film, South by Southwest Film Festival and many more. She has also directed Cigarette Candy and The Strange Ones.
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