Hot Seat | Sundance Short Film | Teen Party has a Wild Surprise

Teenager Andrea uses a male stripper to gain the respect of cool girl Daphne. Based on a true story. **This Month watch award-winning shots from the famous Locarno Film Festival - ** 🤠 Hot Seat by Anna Kerrigan One of the highlights of Sundance 2017, Hot Seat is a terrific coming-of-age story that blends diverse genres in a unusually thoughtful way. Set at a birthday party populated by teens from an all-female school, the film plays with “Mean Girls“ social hierarchies and elements of raunch comedy, but opts against the broad caricatures of those forms, instead homing in on its young protagonist’s uncertainty and confusion to create a nuanced character profile of a girl who is struggling to be accepted. Along the way, the film makes profound points on the nature of group identity, performative sexuality, and victimhood. Andrea (Jess Gabor), is an awkward guest at the party of