Chauffeur
Guillaume, a ride-share driver in San Francisco, is homesick: as he explains to his passengers, he cannot return to France, his home country, because he has realized he is afraid of flying. Amy, a young woman experiencing a quarter-life crisis, begins an affair with Guillaume after her personal life deteriorates. Soon, her boyfriend Mike develops a quarter-life crisis of his own.
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Derek DeRocheDirector
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Derek DeRocheWriter
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Bolaji Tijani-QudusProducer
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Derek DeRocheProducer
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Édouard NégiarKey Cast"Guillaume"
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LiHe HanKey Cast"Amy"
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Skyler SchainKey Cast"Mike"
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Project Type:Feature
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Genres:Comedy, Dark Comedy, Comedy/Drama, Arthouse, Romance, Satire
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Runtime:1 hour 34 minutes 35 seconds
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Completion Date:November 10, 2018
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Production Budget:25,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Private San Francisco screeningSan Francisco
United States
March 4, 2019
Distribution Information
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Global Genesis GroupCountry: United StatesRights: Video on Demand
Derek DeRoche is an independent filmmaker from the San Francisco Bay Area. His debut feature film, "Chauffeur," an arthouse comedy/drama that he wrote, directed, and edited, is being released in 2019 by Global Genesis Group. He has written and directed his own award-winning narrative short films, as well as working in various roles on other projects, in the San Francisco filmmaking collective Scary Cow Productions.
Chauffeur is an arthouse film that explores desire, work, identity, and millennial life with a combination of cringe comedy, absurdism, and minimalism.
The film's style and production methods––long takes, static shots, nonprofessional actors––come from decisions based partly on aesthetics, partly on the necessity for ease and convenience, and partly on an aesthetic OF ease and convenience, as a search for alternatives to the worst tendencies of the film industry––long work hours, rigid hierarchies, stifling commitment to specialized skills, unsustainable use of resources. As such, it is a low-budget film that doesn't merely try to appear high-budget, but that seeks to explore the possibilities opened up by constraints of budget, schedule, and experience.