SMALL TIME tells the story of a girl growing up in rural America in the shadow of the opioid crisis and “the war on terror.” This story is, fundamentally, about America and its internal contradictions. Like a mirage, one America shimmers before us while we stumble over another. It’s also about childhood, and personhood: what shapes the people we become and what shapes us as a nation.
Award-wining director, cinematographer and screenwriter Niav Conty explores intimacy, identity, and the transgressive in a body of film work that tends towards the uncomfortable and darkly humorous. After working closely for several years with Oscar-winning maverick director Joseph Strick in France, she returned to New York in 2010 to pursue an MFA at the City College of New York, where she studied with avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Ackerman. She has been Director of Photography for dozens of films including feature documentaries and fiction films. Her work travels to festivals worldwide and has received awards including best feature, best director, and best Machinima. She is a recipient of the Kodak Award for cinematography, and the 2013 Princess Grace Award.
Small Time, her recent feature shot in rural Pennsylvania is in festivals and has already won numerous awards, including best feature, best director, best acting. She is currently in post-production on her newest feature, Person Woman Man Camera Tv, about an interracial couple disintegrating during the 2020 pandemic.
