"There is a ship and she sails the sea;
She's loaded deep as deep can be;
But not as deep as the love I'm in;
I know not if I sink or swim."

 
- The Water is Wide (Traditional)
   
     
SYNOPSIS  
  Jennifer Langsam has disappeared. Five days before Homecoming the high school senior became the victim of a seemingly harmless locker room prank. Distraught and hysterical, she was excused from volleyball practice to go home. She was last seen a short time later, running 880's around the school racing track, head thrown back, arms spread wide, in street clothes and bare feet.
Last Seen is the story of a vanishing. A television reporter is interviewing the family, friends and acquaintances of Jennifer Langsam, searching for clues to her disappearance. There is no evidence of foul play. Her backpack, found in the Biology Lab, contains her notebook and personal effects, as well as several books about Joanna Southcott, an obscure 17th century mystic who predicted that she would give birth to "the second Shiloh." As for Jenny, she is gone.
Last Seen is a feature film about the mysterious disappearance of a high school volleyball star. Beginning where The Blair Witch Project meets Picnic at Hanging Rock, the story examines the bizarre circumstances surrounding Jennifer Langsam's vanishing. Re-enactments give way to fleeting dream images depicting Jenny's dark and disturbing inner landscape. Evidence points to her growing state of turmoil during the period leading up to her departure. There are suggestions of betrayals, of a life gone out of control. There are indications that she knew she would be taken.
Darkly funny, haunting and strange, Last Seen tells the story of a young woman on the verge of discovering her own secrets, whose passionate intensity can find no place in this world. A bold, new film about the troubling and elusive nature of identity.
     
     
PRODUCTION NOTES  
  STARRING
Amanda Detmer (Dawson's Creek, Drop Dead Gorgeous, NBC's To Serve and Protect), Sally Wingert (David Lynch's The Straight Story, Fargo, Drop Dead Gorgeous), Joe Minjares (The Truman Show), Peter Schmitz (Fargo), Barbara June Patterson (The Straight Story), Barbara Kingsley (The Straight Story), Claudia Wilkens (Drop Dead Gorgeous)
     
  PRODUCTION TEAM
 

Eva Ilona Brzeski (for complete credits see Filmography)
Eva Ilona Brzeski is the Producer/Director/Editor of Last Seen. Her previous films, 24 Girls (1998) and This Unfamiliar Place (1992) have screened at film festivals worldwide, including Sundance, San Francisco International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, New Zealand International Film Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cinema du Reel, and many others, and have received numerous awards. She is currently featured as one of the "25 New Faces" in Filmmaker Magazine.

Holiday Reinhorn
Holiday Reinhorn is the Writer and Associate Producer of Last Seen. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Holiday is the recipient of a Djerassi Fellowship, a Maytag Fellowship and winner of the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. In addition to writing Last Seen (adapted from her short story by the same name), Holiday teaches writing and is currently working on her first novel.

Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson is the Associate Producer and Acting Coach of Last Seen. A Helen Hayes award-winning actor, Rainn has worked extensively on and off-Broadway, as well as at the Guthrie Theater, the Arena Theater and other regional theaters. He is the director of The New Bozena, featured in Ron Howard's The Grinch that Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey. His film and television credits include featured roles in NBC Studios' The Expendables, Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver, One Life to Live, Wally White's Waldo Walker, and the upcoming film by Cameron Crowe.

     
PRODUCTION INFORMATION  
  Produced, directed and edited by Eva Ilona Brzeski
Written by Holiday Reinhorn
Associate Producers: Holiday Reinhorn, Rainn Wilson
Original Music by Victor Zupanc
Cinematography by Eva Ilona Brzeski, Michael David Novak, Elisabeth M. Spencer
     
TECHNICAL INFORMATION  
  Digital Video to 35mm, color, sound, 90 minutes (est.)