Art House Theater Day Programming Fellow and Documentary Filmmaker, Alissa Simone will introduce the screening

This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar’s Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers — including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict — while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.

Alissa Simone is an artist, cultural worker, and an emerging documentary film professional with multiple creative passions. She is currently a board member for Out at the Movies International Film Festival and a Art House Theater Day Fellow for Art House Convergence. Last year, Alissa was the 1st Place winner of the 14th Annual Student PitchFest Competition at RiverRun International Film Festival. Her curious and compassionate nature infuses her work through film programming, collaging, archival research, photography, writing, and filmmaking. Her recent short film, Where We Belong, focuses on the world of Black burlesque from the perspective of Lucy Risqué as she navigates creative and financial freedom in the South. Alissa’s work focuses on the beauty of queerness, soul restoration, movement, community, memory, embodiment, observation, and a tactile sense. Through stories, whether her own creations or curations, her goal is to make people feel, see, and understand themselves and their neighbors on a deeper level. Through her anthropological lens, she aims to activate the senses that we often numb to survive this exhausting system of a dying empire. She believes stories can reveal what people don’t know and show them what they can’t see. We are working toward building a more collective, more loving world—one nourishing film at a time.

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