Dear Lemon Lima
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2006
Logline
In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend, a lonely prep school misfit takes part in a rigorous survival competition and ends up competing against him.
Suzi Yoonessi
Director/ Writer
Suzi Yoonessi is an independent producer based in New York. While studying at Columbia University, Suzi began her collaboration with fellow Iranian-American, Maryam Keshavarz, while both were first year film students and looking to pool their resources. Suzi was assistant producer to Gina Kwon for the Sundance Institute NHK Award winner The Motel, and has also served as producer for Miguel Arteta’s short film Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?, starring John C. Reilly. The short film screened in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, on the Sundance Channel, and was theatrically released at the IFC Center in New York and distributed by McSweeney’s for a compilation DVD.
Amy Hobby
Producer
Amy Hobby has 20 years of experience as an award-winning feature and documentary film producer. Her work spans feature-length dramas starring A-list Hollywood stars to documentaries, international features, television pilots and webisodes. Hobby personifies the fully diverse producer, with deep experience across a wide range of budgets and in various types of producing roles, and has a well-earned reputation for producing edgy, compelling features. She mentors emerging filmmakers worldwide and actively supports women directors through various initiatives launched through Tangerine Entertainment, which she co-founded. Her producing projects have included Secretary, Hamlet (with Ethan Hawke), Love, Marilyn and What Happened, Miss Simone?, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award. She joined TFI as Vice President, Artist Programs in 2015.