Sarah Rich as Rosie in #Like, which was filmed in Bearsville. British-born, New-York-based writer-director-producer Sarah Pirozek splits her time between Brooklyn and Bearsville—the latter is the moody setting for her noir-feminist, indie thriller
#Like. The film—released in 2019 and shown recently at the Woodstock Film Festival, is Pirozek's feature debut, though she's no stranger to directing. Since film school, Pirozek has directed documentaries, music videos, and commercials, but always wanted to make narrative feature films. "I was put on this Earth to tell stories about women," she tells me during our phone conversation.
#Like, a step toward that, is written, directed, and produced by Pirozek. It follows Rosie (Sarah Rich), a teen mourning the first anniversary of her younger sister's suicide, as she attempts to find the man whose online abuse led to her death. When the police refuse to help, she decides to take matters into her own hands. It's a twist on the typical revenge film—think Denis Villeneuve's