AWARD-WINNING US INDIE COMEDY TINY FURNITURE

RELEASED 30 MARCH 2012


Unnervingly honest! –VANITY FAIR


It’s witty, memorable and hands-to-your-face cringey! –LITTLE WHITE LIES


Lena Dunham seems like the Woody Allen of Generation Y.  –SCREEN INTERNATIONAL


It’s bitingly, excruciatingly, disarmingly hilarious, as if Miranda July met The
Inbetweeners at the slightly hazy post 3am-stage of a frat party. –BIRD’S EYE VIEW FILM FESTIVAL


LONDON INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTION is pleased to announce the release of TINY FURNITURE – a wildly witty exploration of post-university confusion by one of America’s most exciting new voices in
independent cinema, Lena Dunham (HBO series Girls, MILDRED PIERCE, THE INNKEEPERS). 25-year
old Dunham wrote, directed and plays the lead in TINY FURNITURE, which launches in UK
cinemas on 30 March 2012.


TINY FURNITURE tells the story of Aura (played by Dunham) who returns home from
university to her mother’s Tribeca loft with: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her
YouTube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself, a dying hamster and her tail
between her legs. Luckily, her train wreck childhood best friend never left home, the
restaurant down the block is hiring and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around
every corner. Aura quickly careens into her old/new life to try to discover who she really
is. 


As authentic as it is endearing, TINY FURNITURE was shot in Dunham’s real-life family home in
New York City, starring her mother (photographer Laurie Simmons) and sister (Grace
Dunham) alongside a brilliant ensemble of young independent talent including Alex
Karpovsky (HARMONY AND ME, BASS ACKWARDS), Merritt Wever (GREENBERG, MICHAEL CLAYTON), Amy Seimetz (YOU’RE NEXT, BITTER FEAST), David Call (BREAKING UPWARDS, TWO GATES OF SLEEP) and artist turned-actress Jemima Kirke (HBO series Girls).


TINY FURNITURE celebrated its world premiere at the 2010 South-by-Southwest Film Festival,
where it won the Jury Award for “Best Narrative Feature” and Dunham took home the
festival’s breakout award for emerging narrative woman director. Dunham also won an
Independent Spirit Award for the TINY FURNITURE screenplay and the LA Film Critics
Association’s “New Generation Award”. The theatrical release marks TINY FURNITURE’S long
awaited debut for UK audiences and will be followed by a DVD and VOD release in May
2012.