Ellie Parker

Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Naomi Watts stars as a struggling actress in Scott Coffey’s caustic film, “the sharpest, most authentic portrait of Hollywood life made in the last several years” (Salon). Mixing deadpan comedy with resonant authenticity, Ellie Parker captures the absurdity, the banality and the grinding frustration of trying to make it in a city where everyone is awaiting their big break. Ellie Parker began as a short shown at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, and in the years that followed Coffey leisurely worked with Watts to expand it into a feature.