SOHO
INTERNATIONAL
Film Festival
2020
Best US Feature Film
WINNER
SOHO
INTERNATIONAL
Film Festival
2020
The Audience Award
WINNER
YIH Fest
2020
Special Jury PrizE
WINNER
SOHO
INTERNATIONAL
Film Festival
2020
Best Actor In a US Feature
Nominated
YIH Fest
2020
Best Actor
WINNER
International
New York
Film Festival
2020
Official Selection
Chelsea
Film
Festival
2019
Official Selection
Hollywood BLVD
Film Festival
2020
Official Selection
Voyeur
INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS
Dumbo
Film
FEstival
2020
semi- FInalist
Monkey
Bread Tree
Film Awards
2019
Official Selection
Young
Filmmakers
2019
Finalist
NEW
Filmmakers
New York
2020
official selection
Screenplay
INYFF
2020
SemiFinalist
Trailer
SYNOPSIS
Based on a true story, a group of students at Yale University mount a production of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie and in their competition to be the most “real,” they take the theatrical ideal of Naturalism to an absurdist extreme. Can the theatre ever disappear completely and become life itself?
Credits
Written, Directed, Produced & Edited by Delilah Napier & Lucy Powers
Cinematography by Andrew Schmidt
REVIEWS
"Voyeur constitutes a truly extraordinary accomplishment in thinking, writing, acting,
cutting, and virtuosic storytelling."
"Lucy and Delilah, the writer/ directors and star cast, do a masterful job of drawing the audience into their world. VOYEUR is a fantastic allegory for the state of the “gifted.” It captures the essence of college life with the absurdity of expectations both self-imposed and those of society. Exploring themes of competition and obsessive behavior in high-pressured, elite colleges ... the filmmakers do a wonderful job of outlining just how far one will go to perform and be the ‘best.’ Inspired by true events, VOYEUR is ultimately a tale of a girl, standing in front of an audience, asking it to believe in her."
“Actor themed films seem to be repeated things at festivals. We get so many of them, and most of them are ‘all the same’… but rarely, very rarely, do we get one like this… Voyeur has something original to deliver, and it does so with a sheen and class that almost recalls the early ‘good seasons’ of HBO’s Girls. There’s character, lightness and plot. All great.”
Joseph Roach
Author of The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Theatre
Melissa Johnson
SAG-AFTRA Actress & Writer
Yale in Hollywood Mentorship Chair & Yale Black Alumni Association
Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards
Nomination:
Best Feature Film Under $5000
Best Ensemble Cast
Meet the Team
Written, Directed, Produced and Edited by Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers
Director of Photography - Andrew Schmidt
Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers met as undergraduates at Yale College and for their joint thesis project in Theatre Studies their senior years, co-wrote, directed, and starred in a feature length film, Voyeur, the first feature ever to come out of Yale College. Voyeur has been selected for nine film festivals and has gone onto win “Best US Feature Film” and “The Audience Award” at the SoHo International Film Festival 2020 as well as other awards. The duo gathered a team and shot a short film on a remote compound this fall, which is currently in post-production, and are working on several other writing projects.
From the directors:
"In Voyeur, we wanted to explore the immense competition and obsessive behavior at work in high-pressured, elite colleges through the lens of a dark comedy. Voyeur is inspired by a real production of Miss Julie that happened at Yale in 2013 where the students got obsessed with trying to make their production as real as possible: In a staged/scripted production, how far is one willing to go to reach authenticity?"