With advancing Alzheimer’s and a determination to do things his way, 80 year-old Jimmy has decided to throw himself a fabulous FUNeral before his intentional death. MOON MANOR takes place in one day - Jimmy’s last day alive - throughout which he’s visited by a cosmic being only he can see, a novice obituary writer, his sharp-witted death doula, estranged brother, salt-of-the earth caretaker, and various FUNeral guests, showing them that sometimes the art of living just may be the art of dying.
Erin Granat's debut feature film as writer-director is MOON MANOR, “a comedy about death,” starring Lou Taylor Pucci, Ricki Lake, Debra Wilson, Gayle Rankin and Whitmer Thomas, shortlisted for Venice Film Festival's Giornate degli Autori, to be distributed by Showtime in 2022. MOON MANOR features the first original score by Coldplay producers The Dream Team, and was selected for the ScreenCraft Film Fund, Whistler Film Festival, Newport Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival and many more.
Originally from rural Nevada, Erin's screenplays have been finalists at the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Contest and the ScreenCraft Feature Competition, and she was a finalist for CRAFT Literary’s 2021 Creative Nonfiction Prize. As a freelance journalist, Erin is a contributing writer and photographer at Flaunt, Uproxx and Billboard, among others. As one half of “KnifeRock,” her collaboration with Machete Bang Bang, Erin recently worked with the band Coldplay documenting the creation of their Grammy-nominated album “Every Day Life,” including their livestream album release in Amman, Jordan (a YouTube production). Erin hosts a book club for Caviar Content and is an aspiring death doula.
