Perfectly Good Moment
Plot
David couldn’t be happier when his fiancée, Ruby, returns after abruptly walking out months earlier. With no questions asked, he lovingly welcomes her back. He figures her cold feet were due to their 15-year age gap. It never crossed his mind that she left to escape his controlling, narcissistic behavior. But why has Ruby really returned? What begins as a romantic drama unfurls into a mind-bending psychological thriller.
Genres
Thriller, Sci-Fi, Drama, Romance
Trailer
Awards and Festivals
• Sarasota Film Festival (NOMINEE – INDEPENDENT VISIONS AWARD BEST FILM)
• Unrestricted View Film Festival (WINNER – SPECIAL MENTION BEST FOREIGN FEATURE; NOMINEE – BEST ACTOR; NOMINEE – BEST ACTRESS)
• West Sound Film Festival (WINNER – BEST DRAMA ACTOR; WINNER – BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY)
• Julien Dubuque International Film Festival (WINNER – JOSEPH B MCNAMER FOUNDATION BEST USE OF MUSIC AWARD)
• Louisville’s Int’L Festival of Film (OPENING NIGHT FILM)
• San Francisco Independent Film Festival
• Philadelphia Independent Film Festival
• Fort Myers Film Festival
• Nevada Women’s Film Festival
• Dead Northern Film Festival
• Mystic Film Festival
• Lake Travis Film Festival
• Apocalypse Later Film Festival
• Hobnobben Film Festival
• Chelsea Film Festival
• Lake County Film Festival
• Bowery Film Festival
• Sheffield Global Cinema Festival
• Calella Film Festival
• Centre Film Festival

Press
• Movie Maker Magazine – How to Make Sex Scenes Look Good (Without Anyone Feeling Weird)
• BritFicks – Spotlight on 2023: Unveiling Five Standout Indie Films – ‘RUB’, ‘FEED ME’, ‘TO NOWHERE’, ‘A PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT’, and ‘MANFISH’
• Tinel & Tine – 5 Questions For Indie Filmmakers at PIFF16
• Cinamago – The Psychosexual Thriller You Don’t Want to Miss at the Unrestricted View Film Festival
• Florida Weekly – Psychosexual revenge drama ‘Perfectly Good Moment’ to play Fort Myers Film Festival
• Broadway World – Stephen Carlile Stars in PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT, Premiering at Sarasota Film Festival
• Film Inquiry – Interview With Actor, Writer And Producer Amanda Jane Stern For PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT
• Cinema Femme – 1st Trailer Drops for Feminist Erotic Thriller “Perfectly Good Moment”
• Let’s Get Intimate: PROVOKR’S Amanda Jane Stern Films Sex Scenes – Provokr
• Stephen Carlile Makes American Feature Film Debut in Perfectly Good Moment – Broadway World
• Lead Characters: Breakup Songs with Lauren Greenhall
• PRLOG: Press Release Distribution – 1st Trailer Drops for Twisty Erotic Drama “Perfectly Good Moment”
Reviews
• Cyclops At The Cinema – Film Review: Perfectly Good Moment
• Dead Northern – Review: Perfectly Good Moment
• Film Inquiry – PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT: Haunting Psychological Thriller
• MovieWeb – Perfectly Good Moment Review: A Perfectly Good Movie
• Film Threat – Perfectly Good Moment Review
• Brit Flicks – Lauren Greenhall’s Stunning Romantic, Revenge Drama, PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT, To Celebrate Its UK Premiere at Unrestricted View Film Festival
• Nate’s Hall – Better than perfect, Amanda Jane Stern breaks out in starring role, screenplay for “Perfectly Good Moment”
Credits
Director: Lauren Greenhall
Writers: Amanda Jane Stern, Julian Seltzer
Cast: Stephen Carlile, Amanda Jane Stern
Producers: Julian Seltzer, Lauren Greenhall, Amanda Jane Stern, Stephen Carlile
Director of Photography: Matt Braunsdorf
Intimacy Coordinator: Acacia
Production Designer: Sydney Flint
Costume Designer: Carla Posada
Hair and Makeup Artist: Brittany Flaherty
First Assistant Director: Meg Koleck
Sound Mixer: Blaine Bailey
Assistant Camera: Jonathan Rodriguez
Gaffer: Sean C. Li
Grips: Ryen Tetzloff, Adam Valentine
COVID Safety Officer: Alexis Atkinson
Links
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Costume Design

Testimonials
Amanda Jane Stern
As an actor who had had experiences both good and bad with filming intimate scenes, I knew going into Perfectly Good Moment that an Intimacy Coordinator was absolutely essential in bringing this story to life. As the writer, producer, and lead of Perfectly Good Moment I knew that the set had to be a safe and open place, not only for me, but for everyone else involved in the film, which dealt heavily with intimacy. By luck I met Acacia, and after talking with them over the phone I knew that they were exactly the IC to bring on. Since I was the writer on the film, I wrote the script with my own boundaries in mind, knowing that I would also be playing one of the two leads. But that doesn’t mean my co-star necessarily had the same boundaries as I, and I did not want to put him in a position where he felt he had to agree to something because I was comfortable with it. Having Acacia on board helped facilitate even more open communication between us so that we were able to reach a place where we felt incredibly comfortable. Because of all the work we did in advance of filming, by the time we got to set, my co-star and I were able to just have fun and even when shooting intense, intimate scenes, in between takes we could snap out of character and just laugh.
The expertise and passion that Acacia brought to the project enabled us to take what was on the page and make it even sexier. The saying goes “safe sex is sexy sex” and the same applies if the sex is simulated.

Amanda Jane Stern
Writer, Actor, Producer
Perfectly Good Moment
Carla Posada
Acacia and I met while filming Perfectly Good Moment. As the costume designer and wardrobe supervisor, although my work appears on camera, I do not. However, from the first-day on-set, it became crystal clear that although it was the actors who would be performing scenes that were sexually violent in nature, Acacia’s priority was for every single person behind the scenes to feel safe too. They explained that the script included sexual violence, that it could potentially trigger someone, and that they were a listening ear and resource should we need to step away at any moment and talk to someone. This made the set not only a comfortable place to work, but a place I looked forward to going to every day; I felt assured that, even if I wasn’t the one directly involved in those scenes, my concerns and experiences would not be overlooked. Acacia was a pillar of support in our workplace.

Carla Posada
Costume Designer
Perfectly Good Moment






















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