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Cosmic Fling
Directed by Jonathan Langager
Director Biography
Jonathan Langager (Director) is a Student Academy Award winning filmmaker and USC School of Cinematic Arts alumnus. His short film “Josephine and the Roach,” has won numerous festival awards as well as Student Emmys for Best Short Comedy and Best Director, the USC Faculty Award for Best Director, and a Student Academy Award in the Narrative Category. It has received the Charles and Lucille King Foundation finishing funds, and the ASC Heritage award for cinematographer Damian Horan. Jonathan recently wrote and directed the short film “Penelope in the Treehouse” for Disney Channel’s online platforms. Currently, he works as a screenwriter, creating fanciful tales for the likes of Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. He is represented by Alex Hertzberg at Atlas Media and Greg Pedicin at Gersh.
Key Credits
Director: Jonathan Langager
Screenwriters: Jonathan Langager, Ali Scher
Producer: Christian Hall
Co-Producer: Sam Koji Hale
Executive Producer: Heather Henson
Director of Photography: Damian Horan
Production Designer: Fon Davis
Composer: Jordan Seigel
VFX Supervisor: Ben Kadie
Puppeteers: Phillip Huber, Christine Papalexis
Key Cast: Josh Fadem, Caitlin McGee
Production Companies: Handmade Puppet Dreams, Two Independent Eyes Productions Inc.
In Partnership with: SHIFT Creative Fund
Director's Statement
"Cosmic Fling" is a space movie for the unheroic. The inadequate. The lonely. It's a space movie for those who aimed for the stars - and then settled for a minimum wage job on a deserted asteroid. It's for those who dare to dream of love...even as she rides a comet across the far side of the solar system. "Cosmic Fling" is my way of telling these lost souls that you can break free. You can find love. You can live happily ever after...or at the very least, until you asphyxiate in the cold vacuum of space.