Cooking with Connie

A mail order bride stages a cooking show like no other.

  • Stavit Allweis
    Director
  • Stavit Allweis
    Writer
  • Stavit Allweis
    Producer
  • Anna Hurwitz
    Producer
  • Elly Han
    Key Cast
    Till We Meet Again, The Destined King
  • Maleni Chaitoo
    Key Cast
    Sign, Don't Shoot the Messenger
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    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 20, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    1,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Brooklyn film Festival
    Brooklyn
    United States
    June 3, 2017
    World Premiere
    Winner: BEST EXPERIMENTAL
  • Oxford FIlm Festival
    Oxford MS
    United States
    February 7, 2018
  • Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival
    Seattle, Washington
    United States
    July 26, 2018
    West Coast Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Blow-Up Film Fest
    Chicago, Illinois
    United States
    Official Selection 2017
  • Calcutta International Cult Film Festival
    Calcutta
    India
    Semi-finalist 2018
  • The Indie Gathering
    Cleveland, Ohio
    United States
    August 12, 2018
    Winner: BEST EXPERIMENTAL
  • Defy Film Festival
    Nashville, Tennessee
    United States
    July 27, 2018
    Official Selection
  • Adirondack Film Festival
    Glens Falls
    United States
    October 18, 2018
    Winner: Best Experimental Runner Up
  • Austin Arthouse Film Festival
    Austin
    United States
    October 20, 2018
    Winner: BEST DIRECTOR
  • Best Shorts Competition
    La Jolla, CA
    United States
    March 20, 2019
    AWARD of EXCELLENCE
  • Festigious Los Angeles - Monthly Film Competition
    Los Angeles
    United States
    February 6, 2019
    BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • AltFF Alternative Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    March 11, 2019
    Semi-Finalist
Director Biography - Stavit Allweis

Stavit Allweis is an Israeli-born, New York-based visual artist who’s journey has taken her from stills to the moving image.

As her paintings became progressively narrative, she began to experiment with sequential art and comics. In 2010, intrigued by the language of cinema, she launched the production of ISNESS, an epic photographic novel. Allweis staged and directed the action as if it were a film. Using Photoshop, the still shots of the actors are set inside shots of hand-made miniature environments. The progress of this project can be followed on www.countercomics.com

In preparation for her shift into film, Allweis took courses in directing (Judith Weston) and acting (Jason Bennett) and joined the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.

Cooking with Connie is Allweis’ first moving image project. She is currently in post-production for her second short, “Execution”, about a group of renegade females who travel around and execute rapist-murderers.

Allweis received her BFA in graphic design from Bezalel Academy, Israel, and her MFA in painting from Columbia University in New York.

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Director Statement

I do not take the moving image lightly. I wish to bring to bear on it everything I have learned about the power of the still and further amplify it with motion.

The collective state of dreaming, that is cinema, is a new, heady medium for me. As I find my bearings in it, I seek my inspiration in early films, in home videos, TV traditions and other sources outside the canon.

I want to explore a less normative approach to film and dish up my stories in ways that are both delicious to the eye and emotionally jarring.