On a String
World Premiere

On a String

US Narrative Competition
Feature | United States | 78 MINUTES | English
New York, Women, Comedy, Drama, Music

Has life after college always been such a drag? Isabel (Isabel Hagen) is a young, Juilliard-trained violist still living at home with her parents in the heart of New York City. She’s trying to make a living playing gigs with her friends in the homes of strangers. But when her toxic ex- boyfriend reappears, who also happens to be the Philharmonic's "newest, hottest cellist," he informs her of a viola opening in the prestigious orchestra. Nothing can go wrong, right?

You’ll laugh yourself onto the floor with scenes crafted by Isabel’s magnetic eye and feel for tone in her feature directorial debut. Family is forever and friends come and go, but what about the fire of ambition? By dropping the audience head first into the lives of such nuanced characters, Isabel makes the push and pull of such a reality absolutely sing with the clear inspiration of lived experiences from her own journey as a Juilliard trained violist turned writer-director-star.—Casey Baron


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Isabel Hagen
Director
Isabel Hagen
Producer
Isabel Hagen, Olivia Vessel, Torrance Shepherd, Alex Vara, Annie McGrath
Screenwriter
Isabel Hagen
Cinematographer
Zac James Nicholson
Editor
Olivia Vessel
Composer
Will Canzoneri
Executive Producer
Hannah Dweck, Theodore Schaefer, Isabel Hagen, Charlotte Ray Rosenberg, Jonathan Daniel Brown
Associate Producer
Catherine Cowin
Cast
Isabel Hagen, Dylan Baker, Ling Ling Huang, Frederick Weller, Jamie Lee, Eric Bogosian

Contacts
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New York, NY 10014
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Press Contact
Steven Raphael
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New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212 206 0118
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