Synopsis

Wally’s mother Elaine is about to abandon her son to the care of his grandmother, a physics professor, for the summer. But when Wally hears his grandmother lecturing about wormholes and time travel, he sees a golden opportunity to change the past — and his grim future. He begins his search for a literal wormhole in his grandmother’s garden.

Credits

Short Narrative

Writer/Director/Editor: Jessica Sharzer
Producer: Sydney Burtner
D.P.: Andrij Parekh
Second Editor: Adam Walsh
Music: Christopher Libertino

The Wormhole was released in 2002, and has garnered multiple film festival awards. In addition to the Nature Scientific Merit Award, The Wormhole has won the 2002 Excellence in Filmmaking Award from the Angelus Awards Student Film Festival, the 2002 Nantucket Film Festival Audience Award, the 2003 Best Live Action Jury Award from the Philadelphia Film Festival, and the Gold Medal for Narrative at the 2002 Student Academy Awards.

Cast

About the Director

Jessica Sharzer was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in New York City, where she would later earn an M.F.A. in film from NYU.

Jessica’s film credits include Nomi’s Bat Mitzvah (director, editor and writer, 2000), Speak (writer, co-producer and director, 2004), starring Kristen Stewart, and Freud’s Magic Powder (writer, 2009); Jessica also directed the season 1 episode of the Emmy nominated television show The L Word, “Layup,” in 2007. Her film Speak, in particular, has been an attention-getter, earning her the 2004 Best Narrative Film Feature Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival and nominations for the 2006 Writer’s Guild of America WGA Award and the 2006 Director’s Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs Award.