First-time director Savvy Lorestani Wins Maverick Award at MethodFest 2009
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 16, 2009 under Awards, Coming-of-age, Film Festival | 
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My Sixteenth Summer, a $1,000 feature from first-time director Savvy Lorestani of Atlanta, GA, was awarded the Maverick Award for Best Low Budget Feature Film at the 11th Annual Method Fest Independent Film Festival and is selected to screen at the Okanagan International Film Festival beginning April 22nd. My Sixteenth Summer tied for the award with Lovers in a Dangerous Time , directed by Mark Hug and May Charters.
My Sixteenth Summer is a coming-of-age film about the ups and downs of being 16-years-old. It centers around Samir (Ali Degan), an Iranian-American teenager struggling with all the pressures, highlights and disappointments of adolescence.
About My Sixteenth Summer:
Samir’s summer is looking pretty bleak. His spoiled sister is back from med school, his fresh off the boat parents get more foreign every day and it looks like he’s about to lose the girl of his dreams…to his best friend. In response, Samir ditches his high school friends and starts hanging out with a couple of twenty-somethings. But as Samir exchanges his adolescent woes for a look at the quarter-life, he starts to see that the other side of twenty isn’t all its cracked up to be…And that maybe being sixteen isn’t so bad.
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