EXCLUSIVE: Following the Sundance premiere of her feature directorial debut Night Nursefilmmaker Georgia Bernstein has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas.
An erotic thriller exploring the dark side of caregiving, Night Nurse world premiered in the festival’s NEXT section, showcasing innovative and forward-thinking independent cinema. The film’s plot is thrust in motion when a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, watching as a starry-eyed nurse (Cemre Paksoy) becomes entangled with her mysterious patient (Bruce McKenzie).
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Waiting to begin her first-day orientation for her new night nurse job at a luxury retirement community, Eleni notices an energy in the geriatric exercise pool. There’s something unexpected about how the bodies are coming together in the water, the mental energy, the tone of conversation, and the way her new client turns around, out of the blue, to stare straight into her eyes. The film explores how emotion, deception, and sexual obsession can come together in the liminal space between caregivers and the people they care for.
An L.A. native, Bernstein directed Night Nurse from her own script. Check out our interview with the filmmaker and her cast out of our Sundance studio at the link above.
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