Récompenses

"With a uniquely dry and campy sense of humor, this film drops you right into a weird world whose wild rules and dark, yet color-blasted, aesthetics are striking but never questioned. Beautiful cinematography, lighting, production design and solid performances help this film create an idiosyncratic, distinctive tone that is comparable to many cult films before it, yet truly all its own. The final result of all of these ingredients is a welcome voice in cinema that is at once both vintage and the future, and we hope that there are many more films to come from writer and director Jennifer Reeder."

"For a delightful, well-acted and incisive romp into Chicago's multi-cultural neighborhoods and a moving exploration of the unique bonds between mothers and daughters. Its inspiring message of love and acceptance explodes with humor and heart. We award the Best US Narrative Feature Film prize to Jennifer Reeder for Signature Move."

"Today I met some girls who know everything about everything", replacement teacher Chrystal Chambers notes in her diary after a school choir rehearsal. More than anything these confident teenagers seem to be aware of their own worth - an awareness adults loose in the course of a woman's life. This sharply delineated confrontation of young, undisputed strength and the cracks and fractures caused by society ultimately dissolves in mutual recognition and solidarity. In a compact sketch consisting of a few, condensed scenes and rooted in pop culture, with strong actors and precise dialogue, Jennifer Reeder opens up a wide space, narrating two opposite biographical stages of female self-assurance with equal measures of sarcasm and tenderness.