Closing Night: Cha Cha Real Smooth

Guests Expected

Director Cooper Raiff and Actor Dakota Johnson are expected to attend.

Description

Andrew is a sweet, talkative, and deeply ambivalent 22-year-old. Fresh out of college and living with his mother (Leslie Mann), Andrew finds his reckless charm makes him the ideal go-to party starter for the bar and bat mitzvahs in his Long Island hometown. Andrew soon befriends single mother, Domino (Dakota Johnson), and her daughter Lola, and their lives become deeply entwined during the endless revelry of coming-of-age parties. As Andrew falls for a homelife that has no room for him, he is forced to face his desires and motives. Cooper Raiff writes, directs, produces, and stars in this hilarious, unexpected, and buoyant story about the people we love and the loves that define us.

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

Joni Binder & Robert Shwarts
Michele Spane & Jonas Rivera

Director Cooper Raiff

The 2022 winner of the Palm Springs Film Festival’s Directors to Watch Award, Cooper Raiff burst on the scene with Madeline & Cooper (2018), a mid-length film. His next project was his first feature, Shithouse (2020), winner of the Grand Jury Narrative Feature prize at the SXSW Film Festival and the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle’s Special Citation for Independent Cinema Award. Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), his second feature, won the Sundance Film Festival’s US Dramatic Audience Award.

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