Private Project

The Angler

  • Lucy Nebeker
    Director
  • Max Nebeker
    Director
  • Max Nebeker
    Writer
  • Lucy Nebeker
    Writer
  • Max Nebeker
    Producer
  • Lucy Nebeker
    Producer
  • Connor Rickman
    Producer
  • Cory Dangerfield
    Key Cast
    "The Angler"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 51 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 3, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    12,000 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 - Lucy Nebeker, Max Nebeker

We are Max and Lucy Nebeker, a twin writing and directing duo from Salt Lake City, UT. Through our films we want to create a voice that engages and explores our own local identity and maverick sensibilities.

To further our filmmaking goals, we have created the Rocky Mountain Mythology Trilogy.

The trilogy is meant to calibrate an aesthetic and tone that can be applied to our larger feature film projects. As artists, we are all about serving our community by articulating narratives and identities from the region. The American West has been such an iconic place in film history, so much so, that there is an entire genre that is based around our region (the Western). We are interested in reclaiming the Western as a genre that speaks more poignantly from a local’s perspective, something that engages with its history and culture in a bold new way.

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Director Statement

An Angler, obsessed with making the perfect fly, finds himself hooked on the line.

The Angler, is the second film in a series dedicated to preserving, adapting, and expanding the folkloric tradition of the Rocky Mountain Region. Through this effort, we are hoping to add our voice to centuries of vibrant folkloric history, harnessing the time tested format of fables to understand and communicate modern issues. The Angler, uses a classic local archetype, the lone fly-fisherman, to explore themes of obsession and domination. The true emptiness of power lays in the fact that at the end of the day you’re on the hook for all the things you’ve done to get there.