Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr’s SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen-year-old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again, while holding herself together, in this sensitive, acutely realized, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story.
Two days after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, a young careerist is abducted by an at-large intelligence operative carrying a mysterious briefcase, while being hotly pursued by a driven agency director and her dull-witted team.