Sally, Get the Potatoes

  • Director

    Danicah Waldo

  • Country, Year, Length

    United States, 2024, 16:36

  • Category

    Narrative Short

  • Format

    Mini DV, Digital, Super 16mm

  • Festival Year

    2025

Synopsis

A little girl’s innocence is shattered when she takes an unexpected ride in her wealthy family’s rolling laundry cart and learns their secrets.

Film Screening & Ticket Information

When & Where to See this Film!

…COMING SOON…

Film Information

From the Director

Director Statement

There’s a great New Yorker cartoon circulating this year. It pictures a fully grown adult laying on a couch in a therapist’s office. The caption reads something like, “I’ve been having a rough childhood lately.”

Sally, Get the Potatoes is an exploration of the grey area in between adolescence and adulthood. The moments where adults try to get it right, and always ultimately fail. The choices that children will forever blame their parents for, no matter the context. The isolation of innocence, and the isolation of knowledge.

I hope you are deeply moved by this riveting breakout performance from Kynlee Heiman. She is a revelation. I hope the story sparks reflection, empathy, and conversation.

We deserve to talk. We deserve to stop hiding in the laundry basket.

– Danicah Waldo, Director

Director Biography

Danicah Waldo is a writer, director, and producer based out of New York City.

She got her 10,000 hours directing and producing narrative short films starring kids for the Applause New York YouTube channel, which now sits at 1.5 million subscribers and 1 billion views.

In 2021 she took a leap to join as Director of Production at LIT Videobooks, where they make documentary versions of non-fiction books. She directs all of the live-action elements of the videobooks, and has built the entire production system from the ground up.

Sally, Get the Potatoes is her personal debut narrative short film as a writer and director.

Credits

    • Danicah Waldo
      Director
    • Danicah Waldo
      Writer
    • Kynlee Heiman
      Key Cast
      “Sally”
      https://www.instagram.com/kynlee_the_great
    • Clark Carmichael
      Key Cast
      “Seth”
      House of Cards, Gotham, The Irishman
    • Quinn Hemphill
      Key Cast
      “Mariah”
      Bad Boys 4
    • Travis Doughty
      Key Cast
      “Auggie”
      Blue Bloods
    • Bohdana Madlova
      Key Cast
      “Magdalena”
    • Amanda Ferguson
      Key Cast
      “Lydia”
    • Charlie Ferrara
      Key Cast
      “Freddie”
    • Cade Waldo
      Producer
    • Sarah Parr
      Producer
    • Jess Dubois
      Producer
    • Danicah Waldo
      Producer
    • Patricia Chica
      Producer
      Somnium, Algiers
    • Jordan Gosnell
      Editor
    • Mike LoBello
      Director of Photography
    • Paul W. Sauline
      Director of Photography
    • Jessica McIntire
      Production Designer
    • Ryan Rivera
      Production Designer
    • David Ebel
      1st AC
    • Marquis Gregory
      2nd AC
    • Jean-Luc Boon
      Key Grip
    • Olivia Vessel
      1st Assistant Director
    • Keshell Scipio
      2nd Assistant Director
    • Yana Gorcheva
      Key Hair & Makeup
    • Leela Malladi
      Executive Producers
    • Morgan Zoia
      Executive Producers
    • Ashley Garrett
      Executive Producers
    • Cambria Martin
      Production Assistants
    • Anthony DeCicco
      Production Assistants
    • Annabelle Park
      Production Assistants
    • Ash Murphy
      Production Assistants
    • Ava McDermott
      Production Assistants
    • Camila Rodriguez
      Production Assistants
    • Ricardo Ramos
      Production Assistants
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