AUTO FICTION

Crime Drama - 1hr 37min - USA 2023

TRAILER (1 min 46 sec)

LOGLINE: After a car crash, a Motr (Uber) driver Sasha is called into the police station where she turns from witness into suspect when it is revealed that her passenger, a hot shot Hollywood producer has been missing since the accident.

THEME

A darkly comical tale observing people caught up in the middle of recent socio-economic change of a globalized world, Auto Fiction uses surveillance aesthetic, giving epic anamorphic treatment to found-footage reality of late capitalism.

ANDREI KONST

Director,
Screenwriter

LOLA NEKRASOVA

Co-Producer,
Actress

Auto Fiction originated when Lola Nekrasova started developing a story based on her personal experiences of driving Uber in Los Angeles while studying method acting.

Andrei Konst, whose latest two projects had strong female leads (Lady of Csejte, Transspecular) elaborated on the idea of a young immigrant getting into trouble in her search for better life.

The script was workshopped through “devising”, a Mike Leigh-inspired method of improvisation during rehearsals with actors, developing the story alongside the cast and making it more personal to all collaborators.

SYNOPSIS

Director,
Screenwriter

When hard-edged Russian transplant, Sasha, first got to Los Angeles, she hadn’t intended on spending her days picking up odd jobs in order to survive. To pay for her acting classes she works at a spin studio while taking the occasional shift as a Motr (Uber) driver.

One night, she picks up an influential Hollywood producer as a passenger, and thinks her luck has begun to change: she believes she may have found a way into the world that has evaded her since her arrival. She hopes to gain contacts from the producer on the drive out to the desert, but when the ride turns sour and an altercation results in a crash, Sasha finds herself further from her dreams than ever.

In the detective’s office the following day she must answer questions about the night, but when she learns that her passenger has been missing since the accident, she confesses that she can’t remember anything from the drive. The detective acquired the footage from her dash cam and hopes that watching it may jog her memory, but that proves difficult when it turns out the audio was corrupted in the crash.

Due to her “memory loss” she can’t offer up any helpful information, so the detective resorts to other measures. He calls in the assistance of the station’s accountant who possesses the ability to read lips, but when she offers up a lip reading that seems to implicate Sasha in the producer’s disappearance, it seems like Sasha remembers more than she initially led on.

Forced to sort through her own memories in order to prove her innocence, she must determine her truth from the fictional and incriminating narrative that is being built around the footage.

DIRECTOR

ANDREI KONST

Director, Screenwriter

Writer and director from Siberia, Russia, where he debuted with a series of acclaimed shorts before making Lady Bathory, his feature debut, in Romania in 2014. Auto Fiction is his sophomore feature.

CREATORS

LOLA NEKRASOVA

Co-Producer

ANDREI KONST

Director,
Screenwriter

DMITRI SMIRNOV

Producer

Andrei Konst & Lola Nekrasova partnered with Dmitri Smirnov, a Harvard alum and private equity investor to found Elephant Enterprises LLC, an emerging Los Angles based film production company specializing in edgy low-budget drama and genre entertainment. Auto Fiction is the first in a slate of indies.

CAST

LOLA NEKRASOVA

Lola Nekrasova, originally from Moscow, made her debut as a comedian on national television at age 19. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has worked on a number of independent projects. Her training includes method acting at Lee Strasberg Institute. She writes and performs stand-up and musical improv around Los Angeles.

DELON DE METZ

Delon de Metz is a series regular on The Bold and the Beautiful. His other credits include both network and cable television and independent film. Delon grew up in New York City and received his initial training from lauded acting coach Susan Batson, but now lives and works in Los Angeles.

JAY KRYMIS

Jay Krymis is Los Angeles based actor originally from Philladelphia with credits both in television productions and studio feature films. Jay also produced two scripted projects and a documentary reality TV show “In the Big House”.