Original Music by Tey \\\ Fir & Owain Kelly

Write When You Get Work

trailer (2 minutes)
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A thorny love story set in New York City at a private school for girls and in the world outside its exclusive walls.

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“As in Cochran’s previous films, there is a biting if subtle wit and commentary lurking beneath the wry fun of the story itself. And not unlike Woody Allen at his classic best, WRITE WHEN YOU GET WORK is a quintessentially New York City movie, in both its visual presentation of the gorgeous city as well as its brutally honest portrayal of the city’s socioeconomic and cultural conflicts.” - Seth Rogovoy, The Rogovoy Report

“Fantastic... A love story, heist and social commentary all at the same time.” - Ashley Menzel, We Live Entertainment

“Delightful… An entertaining romp through cinematic adventures (and misadventures)” - Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Hammer to Nail

“The complex plot combined with compelling acting brings excitement and energy to the film. The excellent soundtrack is the icing on the cake.” – Shannon Wilson, Vox

“This romantic schematic comedy-drama, by the writer and director Stacy Cochran, is a tale of New York’s two cities and the extreme measures needed to connect them.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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My New Gun

clips from the film (4 minutes)
“Cochran’s isn’t a satirist’s world, or a cartoonist’s, or a fairy-tale teller’s; it’s more like a novelist’s. Yet the sort of liberation that MY NEW GUN proposes, and embodies, is the product of a true filmmaker’s vision.” - Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker

"William Carlos Williams wrote a poem that goes like this: 'So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.' Substitute a gun for the red wheelbarrow and you begin to grasp the dramatic crux of writer-director Stacy Cochran's coolly funny, immaculately modulated first feature, MY NEW GUN." - Hal Hinson, The Washington Post

MY NEW GUN is a delectably wry slice of suburban life, imagined by Ms. Cochran and played with perfect bewilderment by the enormously appealing Ms. Lane.” - Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“In MY NEW GUN director Stacy Cochran doesn’t fetishize sidearms. A restless signifier, the gun is passed back and forth between Debbie and Skippy like a hot potato. It’s a symbolic exchange as telling as it is funny. In MY NEW GUN, the .38 in question is both a rod and a piece, male and female, a sign of just how fluid gender roles can be.” - Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice

“Unlike so many comedies set in the suburbs, MY NEW GUN — its houses and roadside restaurants lovingly shot by Ed Lachman — is fueled by optimism and a sense of adventure.” - Stephanie Zacharek, The New York Times
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Boys

clips from the film (7 minutes)
“Essentially a screwball comedy, but one that dares to do without the familiar contrivances of farce. What holds the movie’s volatile mixture of tones and characters together is the filmmaker’s willingness to ride her own complex romantic sensibility as far as it will take her. This young filmmaker may have a more deeply subversive sensibility than any of her celebrated peers” - Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker
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Richard Lester!

clips from the film (2 minutes)
"Stacy Cochran's salute to the director, jubilantly entitled RICHARD LESTER!, consists of an interview with Lester that she conducted, yes, in an open field. Whether saluting John Lennon's inspirational truth-telling or describing how 'just for fun,' he and Peter Sellers made THE RUNNING, JUMPING, STANDING STILL FILM (in an open field!), Lester conveys a freewheeling, iconoclastic intelligence. Although he defines his ultrafast working method as 'panic masquerading as exuberance,' this film testifies to Lester's blithe fearlessness." - Michael Sragow, The New Yorker
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Drop Back Ten

clips from the film (3 minutes)
“Stacy Cochran, director of the impressive MY NEW GUN and BOYS, and her new DROP BACK TEN, is a director of intelligence and originality.” - Tony Keily, Film Ireland

"Once more Cochran maintains her artistic intensity with her newest movie, DROP BACK TEN. Her directorial development was documented brilliantly at the Oldenburg Filmfestival." - Die Tageszeitung

“The tribute for the American director Stacy Cochran was a forum for cinematic discoveries. The four films of this young director were screened in Oldenburg with a huge response from the audience.” - Filmecho/Filmwoche
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Year On Ice

opening (3 minutes)
It’s 1969. Madison Square Garden is new, the world is skittish, and professional hockey is beautiful and violent.

Inspired by New York Times reporter Gerald Eskenazi’s book of the same name, documenting that NHL season in New York, YEAR ON ICE has Eskenazi’s authenticity as its foundation, and a fictional overlay of menace and malevolence.

Among the players and their owners there is one female character, and she has violence of her own to contribute to the proceedings.

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Coming in 2023...

Heartbeat of Squirrels

full movie (8 minutes)
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,
it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat,
and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

- George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH, 1871-1872

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HEARTBEAT OF SQUIRRELS is a short rumination and sleight of hand, a live action melody. It was prompted by an academic book of ideas about the role of strangers in late 19th century novels.

Nominated

Best Short Film
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Pick-Up Pop-Up Bookshop

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Music Videos

Midnite:30 (WASH)
Long Journey (Sing It To The Mountains)
Long Journey (Old Virginia)
Albert Cummings (with thanks to MassMoCA for use of Building 6)

I'm A Tiger

opening (10 pages)

I'm A Tiger

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Stacy Cochran

reel (15 minutes)

Stacy Cochran

is a director, screenwriter, and producer based in New York City.

She made her feature debut with Columbia TriStar title MY NEW GUN starring Diane Lane and James LeGros. It was shot on 35mm film by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman, ASC. It premiered in Director's Fortnight at Cannes and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature.

Subsequent projects as writer-director include Touchstone/Interscope title BOYS starring Winona Ryder, the half-hour film RICHARD LESTER! about the director which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (now on Criterion Channel) and DROP BACK TEN which premiered in Dramatic Competition at Sundance.

In 2018, she completed WRITE WHEN YOU GET WORK starring Emily Mortimer, Finn Wittrock and Rachel Keller. Shot on Super16mm film by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, ASC, the movie premiered in Narrative Competition at SXSW, was released in theaters and is now streaming on AmazonPrime. In 2022, she completed YEAR ON ICE, a rogue-produced fictional feature inspired by Gerald Eskenazi’s book on the 1969-70 NHL season in New York.

As the Arthur Levitt Artist-in-Residence at Williams College, she has taught screenwriting and directing in Williamstown, Massachusetts where she also served as head of the Program Advisory committee at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art/MASS MoCA in North Adams. She has a BA in Political Science from Williams, and an MFA in Film from Columbia University.
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Odds & Sods

Symphony For Her Website
Original Music by Tey \\\ Fir & Owain Kelly. Portraits by Danielle Klebes. Wall Hanging by Anna Betbeze. Released 2022 on AYE Records
Prostitutes
Thanks to Ted Hope
100 Frames
On Olivier Assayas' Cold Water
Split Screen
Interview with John Pierson