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Synopsis
Lina Steiner is the daughter of lauded painter Otto Kresh, and subject of Girl in a Chair, a painting so controversial, public outrage drives it underground for 40 years. The painting depicts a teenage Lina nude and menstruating, forced by her father to pose in order to save his waning status as one of the world’s great masters. When the painting suddenly emerges and is sold at auction to an anonymous bidder, all the top museums and galleries start knocking on Lina’s door. Enter Brice Harvey, a young curator for the Tate Museum who was recently deposed for buying a fake DeKooning. Brice is intent on getting her job, and reputation, back by finding the masterpiece on her own. She finds Lina on the brink of her final installation to finally tell the truth of how the painting came to be, unable to recover from the trauma of her exploitation and betrayal by her father. Over the course of one evening, the two women battle it out psychologically and emotionally, Brice intent on getting the painting at all costs, and Lina consumed by revenge. Finding themselves on the cusp of what they hate the most, will they find a way to upend the art world instead of one another?
MONA LINA is a thrilling dive into the underbelly of the art world - misogyny, exploitation, trauma, and what women will do to change the game.
Bio
Genevieve Anderson is a filmmaker, producer, and social entrepreneur living in Los Angeles. Her short films have played at over 100 festivals worldwide, winning awards in Berlin, Seattle, Chicago, Rhode Island, Palm Springs, among many others, and have been broadcast on ARTE and IFC. Her award-winning first feature, DUSTWUN, about her experience living at the US/Mexican border, is distributed globally by House of Film. She is a Rockefeller Media Artist Grant recipient and an Annenberg Fellow, and earned her MA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She produced for world-renowned video artist Bill Viola for 15 years, helping create the artist’s biggest works – Venice Biennale, St. Paul Cathedral, London, The Deutsche Guggenheim, The Hamad International Airport, Qatar, among many others. She is the subject of Forming the Formless, an Emmy-nominated PBS spotlight on her work with puppets. She is founder of WUNZ Apparel in Action, a social enterprise working with the Los Angeles Mission to help provide employment pathways to women in recovery.
Credits
Producer - Nick Mastandrea
Casting Director - Eve Pomerance
