Synopsis
An elderly woman (Edith Ivey, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) visits the local car wash and lube to connect with the world closing in around her.
The Car Wash was the first narrative film written and directed by James Kicklighter when he was a college student at Georgia Southern University. The film was the first project Ms. Ivey shot after working with David Fincher on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Screening at film festivals across the country, the student film won the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 National Film Festival for Talented Youth, the largest film festival in the world for filmmakers under the age of 24, Best Drama at the 2010 Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival, and 1st Place at the 2010 Georgia Communication Association Short Film Festival.
- Director, Writer, Producer
- James Kicklighter
- Writer
- James Kicklighter
- Producers
- James Kicklighter, Steve Nyberg
- Cinematographer
- Jonathan Pope
- Editor
- James Kicklighter
- Composer
- Bruce Kiesling
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“Called 'Car Wash,' it was said to be the latest offering of a talented and young (just 22 years old) filmmaker from southeast Georgia who is rapidly making a name for himself in the world of film and digital expression. I regret missing the film, but more than that, regret not having a chance to talk one-on-one with the producer — James Kicklighter. We conversed over the phone a couple of years ago, but never face to face.”
“The script was so perfect, Edith Ivey said, that every line on the page was exactly how she would say it in real life. 'I would have thought that no one under the age of 50 could have even thought about writing this material. You’d never know it was his first project. What impressed me about James was that he was tremendously organized. He knew exactly what he wanted, that’s why I had no idea this was a new venture for him.”