IT HAD TO BE YOU

USA  | 2015 | Comedy, Romance | 82 Minutes

SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2016  - 3:30PM 

Director, Writer: Sasha Gordon

Producers: Rachel Brenna

Cinematographer: Bobby Wester

Editor: Amanda Laws

Composer: Sasha Gordon

Cast:  Cristin Milioti, Dan Soder, Halley Feiffer, Mark Gessner, Kyle Mooney

Synopsis:   The main character In composer Sasha Gordon’s thoroughly delightful directorial debut is Sonia, a neurotic jingle writer who is taken aback by the sudden marriage proposal from her easy-going boyfriend. Sonia suddenly has to choose between joining the ranks of her married friends or pursuing her fantasies. “I wanted to portray a relationship in  all its flawed everyday beauty,” wrote Gordon, and I wanted to do so through my particular female lens.” 

FILMMAKER BIO: 

Sasha Gordon is an award-winning filmmaker and composer. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sasha immigrated to the US in 1989. Sasha has scored over 50 features and shorts (among them the Oscar-winning "God of Love"); directed several award-winning shorts (including "Manhattan Melody", which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to play all over the world); and is thrilled to have just completed her debut feature "It Had To Be You", a subversive romantic comedy. Sasha is currently scoring Amazon's "Gortimer Gibbons Life On Normal Street" while writing her second feature.