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Absurdist comedy “Sunlight” premiering at Santa Fe International Film Festival

An absurdist romantic comedy co-staring a familiar face to New Mexico theater-goers and a woman in a monkey suit will premier Saturday as part of the Santa Fe International Film Festival.

Shenoah Allen, one half of the comedy duo “The Pajama Men” and award winning filmmaker and ventriloquist Nina Conte worked for five years writing “Sunlight” a film that was executive produced by Christopher Guest. The story follows a woman who refuses to come out of her life-sized monkey suit until she finds someone who can love her for who she truly is. The film is shot in New Mexico and as Allen says, it leaned on the absurdism of the script and the diversity of the backdrop. “New Mexico is a beautiful place and it’s also a complicated place, and it was great to rediscover it through Nina’s eyes,” Allen said.

Sunlight premiers Saturday, October 19 at the New Mexico Museum of History.

By Isaac Cruz