A Song of an Unknown Actress

Directors - Peter Goeltenboth, Florian Giefer, Tom Weissferdt

Venice, CA

Run Time - 1 hour 20 minutes

Every year thousands of young women move to Los Angeles, looking for their opportunity in the movie industry. They drive from one audition to the next, reading for bit parts or commercials while working survival jobs on the side. The lifeline that keeps them busy and hoping is an endless loop of castings, because despite all the hardship every audition is an opportunity and a promise for a better future.

In Los Angeles the dreams and aspirations, the history and the present create a unique form of reality. Everything, even failure is blown up to be larger than life. When in 1932 young starlet Peg Entwistle jumped to her death from the top of the Hollywood sign she was quickly made into a symbol for the sinister side of the Hollywood dream. Ever since, every aspiring actress has to fight the clichée of being naive and defenceless.