Director
Director of "The Fits"
PROFILE
Anna Rose Holmer
FROM Anna Rose Holmer
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
‘The Fits’: The Dreamy Coming of Age Sundance Favorite Coming of age is a common theme in art, especially movies. That moment between childhood and adolescence is full of drama. A new movie set in a Cincinnati housing project with an all African American cast takes on the subject in an innovative way. The Fits , the directorial debut of filmmaker Anna Rose Holmer, is about an 11-year-old girl named Toni who becomes fascinated by a group of older girls in a dance troupe which she joins before seeing some of them come down with mysterious seizures, convulsions and fainting – ‘the fits’. The film has little dialogue, but is more like a dreamy meditation on Toni’s world.
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