‘Eephus’ Director Carson Lund On His Love Letter To Amateur Baseball – Cannes Studio

Title: Eephus
Section: Quinzaine
Director: Carson Lund
Logline: As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time over the course of a day.
Sales agent: Film Constellation
Panelists: Director Carson Lund and actor Keith William Richards
Key quote: “I started writing it during the pandemic, mostly over Zoom with my writers, Mike Basta and Nate Fisher. I’d been looking for a long time for an idea that would strike me, that felt really personal. I’ve been a cinematographer for a long time, and I’m really drawn to atmosphere and mood and less so story sometimes, so I was looking for a location that would inspire something that I could build a narrative around. This film takes the form of one single game. So it’s a bit of an unconventional story structure. We use the game to house the story, as it’s a film with a large ensemble cast, without a specific protagonist.” – Carson Lund

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