Squeeze Your Thumbs
"No vacancies" echoes in Heike Koller's ears. She's just stepped off the boat into New York City from Germany to pursue her dreams of becoming a singer songwriter, but she'll be lucky if she can just find a decent place to live. "Squeeze Your Thumbs" is Heike Koller's transformation from disenfranchised immigrant to rising star of the music world. A heartwarming story about America's open arms to outsiders. Made as part of the 2005 New York 48 Hour Film Project, Squeeze Your Thumbs represents what results when Playomatic Media Group only has 48 hours to conceive, script, produce, shoot, edit, score and master a short film
- Runtime
- 8m
- Released
- 2005
Details
Release year: 2005
Storyline
"No vacancies" echoes in Heike Koller's ears. She's just stepped off the boat into New York City from Germany to pursue her dreams of becoming a singer songwriter, but she'll be lucky if she can just find a decent place to live. "Squeeze Your Thumbs" is Heike Koller's transformation from disenfranchised immigrant to rising star of the music world. A heartwarming story about America's open arms to outsiders. Made as part of the 2005 New York 48 Hour Film Project, Squeeze Your Thumbs represents what results when Playomatic Media Group only has 48 hours to conceive, script, produce, shoot, edit, score and master a short film
Top credits
- Victoria Mayers-Gray — Heike
- Laura Faith — Alex Simon
- Hal B. Klein — Sly Moskowitz
- Lucas Flanagan — Drew Miller