We’re super excited to announce that, straight off the heels of THE TIDE directorTatum Lenberg’s appearance at this year’s PLFF,  she’ll be joined by co-writer and assistant director Lilia Fromm and editor Sam Lyons! Here’s a quick bio for each:

Lilia Fromm is a sophomore at Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was a speaker at TEDxYouth@Lincoln in 2014 and TEDx@Lincoln in 2015. She has qualified twice for National Individual Tournament of Champions Speech competition in her two years on the award-winning Lincoln High speech team. Lilia has failed to live up to her childhood goals of becoming a mermaid, although she has ambitions of becoming a cat lady if marrying various celebrity crushes proves impossible. She co-wrote, translated, assistant directed and starred in ‘The Tide’ when she was 13 years old.

Sam Lyons goes to high school in San Francisco. He is an honor roll student and an accomplished member of the speech and debate team. In his free time, he enjoys doing photography and robotics. Sam fell in love with the beauty of Nebraska while filming in Lincoln. Sam Lyons edited and starred in ‘The Tide’ alongside his best friends Lilia Fromm and Tatum Lenberg when he was 14 years old.

It’s an immense sense of pride in the Nebraska filmmaking scene that there are such talented and young filmmakers doing their thing and we’re honored to be able to show this film on the big screen! Don’t miss Tatum, Lilia, and Sam’s Q&A along with a bunch of other short filmmakers by heading over to the Tickets page to order your Weekend Pass for the low price of $10.00 !