UNLV film professor Brett Levner’s new film, Riot in Bloom, brings a collaborative spirit to the Nevada Women’s Film Festival
In the late 1990s, UNLV film professor Brett Levner worked in the documentary unit at MTV, at the tail end of alternative rock’s heyday. “I feel like there was still the grunge essence,” she recalls. “Or maybe I was finding it by watching movies like Singles and my favorite movie Reality Bites. I was still wearing my Doc Martens and flannels and attracted to that world.”
Levner channels that spirit of the ’90s in her new feature film Riot in Bloom, which combines nostalgia for the era with a showcase for its modern resurgence, via the story of a middle-aged woman reliving her youthful rebellion. On her 40th birthday, Rose (Reagan Pfifer) finds out that her husband has been cheating on her, a revelation that shakes up her entire life.