Caroline Stucky
Directing
Biography
Caroline Mariko Stucky is an award winning Swiss-Japanese independent filmmaker with a fierce passion for American culture. For Caroline, film, the world of the image, is the ultimate language that trumps the whirling kaleidoscope of spoken languages of her childhood. As a director, the 2013-2014 season has marked the premieres of her two short films "Paper Boats" and "ColorBlind" in New York, as well as the beginning of work for her first feature film. She has worked on several theater productions, including Pierric Tenthorey's "Homme encadré sur fond blanc" (2010-2012), Domenico Carli's "Boléros" with Atelier C in 2008, "Don Juan" with the Sun & Moon Theater Company in 2008, and Robert Wilson's "In the Evening at Koi Pond" with Change Performing Arts Milano at the 2005 Aichi World Expo in Nagoya.
Known For
Three friends pledge a fraternity that's deadly serious about its secret rituals, turning their rush into a race for survival.
Pledge
A young woman’s exploration of BDSM takes a dangerous turn when she’s abducted, forcing her to confront the boundaries between desire, consent and control.
Stockholm
Queer twins of a deceased political figure become the unwanted face/scapegoat for a rebellion against a government that threatens to take their basic human rights to build their false utopia.
cataclysm.begins: The Catalyst
An urban loner seeks a second chance at redemption when she's invited her estranged BFF's bachelorette party.
Stag
After losing her teaching career in the Catholic school system, a transgender woman has a profound impact on the lives of two children–one with two fathers in marital strife, and the other a recent transplant from a conservative household. When the children form a unique bond, new questions and old prejudices erupt.
Regarding Us
Jo is an outgoing, liberated second generation Chinese-American girl who begins a passionate romance with Helen at the opening of the film. Since long before dating Helen, Jo has been extravagantly out and on the scene as a lesbian, but crisis unfolds when she reveals a secret. Helen can't swallow the news and suddenly mistrusts Jo's intentions and fidelity.
Us
In 1911, two young society women disguise themselves as men to sneak into a gentlemen-only club in NYC for a chance to meet their heroine, the great Sarah Bernhardt. Inspired by a true event.
Ladylike
A Japanese American woman connects with her grandmother
Hafu
A woman gets a second chance to save her beloved cat, but not all is as it seems.
The Dead Cat
An isolated but vital old man finds a box of junk and transforms it into a sculpture.
Old Junk
Paper Boats is a poetic and surreal drama about Jayden, a 12 years old boy. that can't enjoy the present moment because he is too afraid of death and time passing by. Eventually, his encounter and friendship with Amaziah, an older man from his neighborhood will open his mind to the beautiful parts of the world and will make him realize that in life not everything is black or white