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DRIVE

DRIVE is a love song between a woman and her car. The car represents freedom and an escape from domestic abuse. She leaves sorrow behind, packs her bags, steals her partner's car and hits the road with no end in sight. "I wanna drive, I wanna drive to the end of the world". This video celebrates the power of one's own will and the how sometimes the choice to leave someone, even as hard as it may be, is the only answer. My director, Liv and I have both gone through similar traumatic relationships based in mental and physical abuse and after sharing our stories with each other, of how we summoned the strength to leave, and to leave safely we decided that DRIVE would be the perfect fit for this story. Collectively we should all try to be more aware of seeing signs of struggle. Be a source of support. Learn how to speak to and help friends, family members, or acquaintances who come to you with stories of violence. Talk about it. Educate yourself about domestic violence and pass along the knowledge to friends and family. Things change much faster when we direct our energies to changing them.

  • Liv Prior Colliander
    Director
    Dry Land, Manden Udenfor, Nye Tilder, Hey Love, Snap
  • Lexie Roth
    Writer
  • Liv Prior Colliander
    Writer
    Dry Land, Manden Udenfor, Nye Tilder, Hey Love, Snap
  • Lexie Roth
    Producer
  • Lexie Roth
    Key Cast
    Joy, Chappaquiddick, Ghostbusters, The Ill Will, Carl
  • David Henry Gerson
    Key Cast
  • Jackson McCoy
    Drone Photography
  • Liv Prior Colliander
    Editor
  • Spencer Koobatian
    Editor
  • Zachary W. Graves-Miller
    Additional DP
  • Liv Prior Colliander
    Cinematographer
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 16, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Liv Prior Colliander

Liv Prior Colliander is a Danish director and writer based in Los Angeles. She recently earned her MFA in directing from the prestigious American Film Institute, where she was the sole recipient of the Alessandro F. Uzielli Scholarship. Liv has also received awards from Hempels Medarbejder Foundation, Knud Højgaards Foundation, and Nordisk Film Foundation. Her thesis film DRYLAND is currently doing it's festival round, including the Reykjavik International Film Festival as a 2016 Golden Egg Finalist, the American Film Festival in Poland, LA Shorts Fest and Soho International Film Festival.

Over the past decade before attending AFI, Liv worked her way up through the Danish film, commercial and television industry, working beside some of the country’s finest filmmakers, and earning broad experience at Denmark’s most renowned production companies: Nordisk Film, Zentropa, Fridthjof Film, ASA Film, Moland, Bacon CPH, Endemol, and many others.

Liv graduated from the European Film College in 2006, followed by studies at the Short and Documentary Film School in Denmark as a directing fellow in 2006 and 2008. Liv has written and directed over ten short films, among them MANDEN UDENFOR (Odd Man Out), starring Søren Pilmark and several other celebrated Danish actors. The film premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and aired on Danish television. Liv has also directed multiple commercials and music videos.

Since graduating, Liv has been part of the admission comity at AFI Conservatory, interviewing and selecting the 2016 Directing fellows in collaboration with the discipline head, the dean and other faculty. She also worked as a judge at the European Student Film Festival 2016 in Geneva and lead workshops in Directing and personal storytelling for the new generation of filmmakers.

Liv is now part of Film Fatales LA and in the WIF Mentorship Program. She is in the Reykjavik International Film Festival 2016 Talent Lab, and is currently writing a true crime-drama TV pilot as well as her first feature. Through her films, Liv is interested in exploring humanity’s fundamental loneliness, and how that loneliness affects our struggles to fit into the rules of society. She is drawn to characters with identity crises who fight, often humorously, to hold themselves together in the face of our chaotic world.

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Director Statement

I loved DRIVE from the very first moment Lexie played it for me. As Lexie had written the song about her beautiful old Buick, there was no doubt that the video had to be built around her driving in it. But where and why? It had to be like Thelma & Louise aka Lexie & her yellow Buick. After more intimate talks, it became the story about a woman who finally gathers the strength to leave her abusive relationship behind - with the car as her healing tool. The journey shows her transformation back into being a free, independent and strong woman. It is a journey we both want to inspire in the world.