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local sightings: Dear Lemon Lima

Tuesday, Oct 6, 7pm
Co-Presented by Longhouse Media and National Geographic All Roads Film Project
Dear Lemon Lima
(Suzi Yoonessi, Seattle, 2009, 87min.)
Half-Eskimo high schooler Vanessa Lemor, the protagonist of Dear Lemon Lima, is probably too old to be doodling rainbows and bunnies that poop pastel hearts, though director Suzi Yoonessi believes there's nothing sadder than outgrowing childhood. Here, the Me and You and Everyone We Know producer-turned-director raids her own adolescent diary to garnish an otherwise familiar misfit teen comedy with endearing personal touches. From its hand-drawn opening credits to the climactic dance-off before an auditorium of peers, this Juno-meets-Napoleon Dynamite hybrid substitutes Seattle for the quiet town of Fairbanks, Alaska. The film follows introspective 13-year-old Vanessa Lemor spends her days pouring her heart out into the pages of her diary, and dealing with the pain of being recently dumped. While her ex-beau Philip reinvents himself as one of the popular kids, Vanessa remains stuck in a lonesome state of adolescent awkwardness, intent on winning back her beloved. Together with a gang of social outcasts called the FUBARs (short for 'F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition'), Vanessa enters her school's Snowstorm Survivor competition, an event inspired by the World Eskimo Indian Olympics, convinced that sporting victory will be her way back into Philip's heart.