Official Trailer for Coming-of-Age Indie ‘Jazzy’ That includes Lily Gladstone
by Alex Billington
January 24, 2025
Supply: YouTube
“It makes my coronary heart glad to see our younger folks witness this lengthy custom.” Vertical has revealed an official trailer for an indie movie known as Jazzy, the third characteristic movie from acclaimed indie filmmaker Morrisa Maltz following The Unknown Nation with Lily Gladstone beforehand. This premiered on the 2024 Tribeca Movie Competition final 12 months, and it additionally performed at Nashville, Montana, Santa Fe, San Diego, & Denver Movie Fests. Maltz’s movie Jazzy navigates the area between childhood and younger maturity. When her greatest buddy strikes away, Jazzy experiences each a way of loss and her first inkling of independence. This coming-of-age story is about Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux, a younger Oglala Lakota lady rising up in Spearfish, South Dakota, from the ages of six to 12. Opinions state that, “whereas the vitality of this world is intoxicating, a lot of it bolstered by a zippy soundtrack that runs the gamut, we see small pains taking form, too.” Starring the actual Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux, with Syriah Foohead Means, Richard Ray Whitman, Raymond Lee, and Oscar-nominee Lily Gladstone. This seems like a really highly effective & genuine coming-of-age story.
This is the official trailer (+ poster) for Morrisa Maltz’s movie Jazzy, direct from Vertical’s YouTube:
Within the follow-up to Morrisa Maltz’s award-winning The Unknown Nation, Indie Spirit Awards nominee Jazzy is a portrait of Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux, a younger Oglala Lakota lady rising up in Spearfish, South Dakota, from the ages of six to 12. When Jazzy finds out her greatest buddy Syriah is shifting, she is confronted with the pains of rising up and the realities of the grownup world. The movie explores the lives & ever-changing relationships of their peer group as they depart the dreamlike world of childhood behind. Jazzy is directed by American filmmaker Morrisa Maltz, of the movies Ingrid and The Unknown Nation beforehand, plus a number of shorts. The screenplay is by Morrisa Maltz, Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux, Vanara Taing, Andrew Hajek. Produced by Miranda Bailey, Natalie Whalen, Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux, John Means, Elliott Whitton, Tommy Heitkamp, & Vanara Taing. This premiered on the 2024 Tribeca Movie Competition final 12 months. Vertical debuts Maltz’s Jazzy in choose US theaters beginning on February seventh, 2025 coming quickly.