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Karen Skloss

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Karen Skloss
An unplanned pregnancy for an unplanned girl sets off SUNSHINE, a playful, yet ultimately stirring self-portrait of an adopted woman driven to search for answers through reconnection with her biological mother.

In this compelling documentary, filmmaker Karen Skloss explores the meaning of family through a personal journey to understand both the legacy of her birth and the non-traditional family she created by co-parenting with her ex-boyfriend. As an unwed teenager, Skloss's mother went to a home for unwed mothers and gave her up for adoption in 1975. Now as the pair reconnects, as Karen contemplates her relationship with her own daughter, Jasmine. Young, pregnant, single and unprepared, the daughter/director struggles with the incredible ironies of the family—that history somehow repeated itself, and that the most strenuous efforts to protect the idea of family can actually do the most to pull families apart­.

Woven together from over 10 years of super 8 and video home movies, intimate family interviews, shimmering dance sequences and stylized reenactments, SUNSHINE offers a refreshingly rare glimpse on the current day transformations taking place within our most sacred of institutions, the family.
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Karen Skloss is a writer-director, producer, and editor. Recent features as editor include the acclaimed dramedy, "Support the Girls" (dir. Andrew Bujalski) which was listed as a top movie pick by former president Barack Obama and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Recently, she co-produced and edited the doc feature "Have You Got it Yet?" (Dirs. Roddy Bogawa/Storm Thorgerson) about Pink Floyd's legendary original songwriter, Syd Barret, released in theaters via Abramorama and Mercury Studios. She began her career editing the celebrated documentary, "Be Here to Love Me: The Story of Townes Van Zandt" (dir. Margaret Brown).
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    Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, and Shayna McHayle in Support the Girls (2018)
    Support the Girls
    6.4
    • Editor
    • 2018
    Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright in Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (2023)
    Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
    7.3
    • Editor
    • 2023
    The Honor Farm (2017)
    The Honor Farm
    3.7
    • Director
    • 2017
    Be Here to Love Me (2004)
    Be Here to Love Me
    7.8
    • Editor
    • 2004

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    Editor



    • Second Chair, Stage Left
      • Editor
      • Post-production



    • Time Passages (2024)
      Time Passages
      6.5
      • Editor
      • 2024
    • Power Trip: the Story of Energy (2020)
      Power Trip: the Story of Energy
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2023
    • Marisol (2023)
      Marisol
      5.5
      • Editor
      • 2023
    • Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright in Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (2023)
      Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
      7.3
      • Editor
      • 2023
    • Walter Estes and Leslie Estes in Breaking Silence (2023)
      Breaking Silence
      8.0
      Short
      • Editor
      • 2023
    • A State of Mind (2022)
      A State of Mind
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2022
    • American Gadfly (2022)
      American Gadfly
      8.3
      • Editor
      • 2022
    • Kinderland (2021)
      Kinderland
      Short
      • Editor
      • 2021
    • Alumination (2021)
      Alumination
      5.2
      • Editor
      • 2021
    • Beau Ballinger in She Watches from the Woods (2021)
      She Watches from the Woods
      5.8
      • Editor
      • 2021
    • Queens of Pain (2020)
      Queens of Pain
      7.3
      • Editor
      • 2020
    • Bruce Campbell in Ripley's Believe It or Not! (2019)
      Ripley's Believe It or Not!
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2019
    • Haint (2018)
      Haint
      • Editor
      • 2018
    • Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, and Shayna McHayle in Support the Girls (2018)
      Support the Girls
      6.4
      • Editor
      • 2018
    • Postcards from the Great Divide (2016)
      Postcards from the Great Divide
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2016

    Director



    • The Honor Farm (2017)
      The Honor Farm
      3.7
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Slacker 2011 (2011)
      Slacker 2011
      5.2
      • Director (segment "Pap Smear & Street Scenes")
      • 2011
    • Independent Lens (1999)
      Independent Lens
      8.1
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2010
    • Sunshine
      6.3
      • Director
      • 2009
    • Smitten
      6.1
      Short
      • Director
      • 2001

    Actress



    • The Cassidy Kids (2006)
      The Cassidy Kids
      6.3
      • Karen
      • 2006
    • Dear Pillow (2004)
      Dear Pillow
      5.6
      • Nick's Wife
      • 2004
    • Pleasureland
      4.7
      Short
      • Clerk
      • 2001
    • Odile & Yvette at the Edge of the World (1993)
      Odile & Yvette at the Edge of the World
      6.5
      • Odile
      • 1993

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