Lila Yomtoob & Cast:
How can an actor truly present the authentic and natural if they are “playing” a part? Filmmaker Lila Yomtoob discusses how she circumvents this contradiction by utilizing innovative and unorthodox rehearsal techniques to get actors into character. In this interview, the actors in High Life discuss the methods they used for this improvisational film, and how they achieved the desired result of “severe naturalism.”

Lila Yomtoob is an aging young upstart. At the tender age of 25, she directed High Life which premiered at San Francisco Indiefest in 2005. Her inspiration for this film was an incident that happened to her in college when a friend of hers went missing, and she was struck by the way “everyone was dealing with loss.” In 2006, she received an Emmy Award for sound editorial on the HBO documentary "Baghdad ER."

Lila is currently writing her second feature film. She is a graduate of NYU film school and looks forward to the future. In her spare time, Ms. Yomtoob daydreams about starting an angora bunny farm.