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PETTING ZOO

By Micah MAGEE

KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2015

A story of love, sex and teen pregnancy in San Antonio, Texas. Petting Zoo is the portrait of a young woman coming into her own, in an environment that does not always present ideal circumstances.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2015

Panorama Special

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY, USA, GREECE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Micah MAGEE
- Writer(s)
- Micah MAGEE
- Cast
- Devon KELLER, Austin REED, Deztany GONZALES, Kiowa TUCKER
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-D442-0000-H-0000-0000-N
- EIDR
- 10.5240/5607-A13F-D508-4AD5-65AD-2
- Producer(s)
- Michael WEBER, Viola FÜGEN, Johan CARLSEN, Friederike Sophie STEINBECK, Athina Rachel TSANGARI
- Synopsis
- San Antonio, Texas.
  Seventeen-year-old Layla’s prayers are
  answered when she wins a college scholarship.
  From a low-income family, she has been
  working full time at a local telemarketing
  company and it hasn’t stopped her from being
  at the top of her high school class. Hanging out
  with her slacker boyfriend Danny and partying
  with her best friend Melanie round out Layla’s
  routine. But an unplanned pregnancy changes
  everything. Giving into family pressure, Layla
  decides against an abortion, drops her college
  dreams and moves into her loving Grandma’s
  trailer on the edge of town.
  Layla moves forward confidently with her new
  daily life as a pregnant teenager, but she’s still
  anxious about the future. She ends up meeting
  a new boy – Aaron – different from everyone
  else, and starts a new job in a diner. Just as
  things seem to be falling into place again,
  fate throws another turn. As her social fabric
  unravels around her, Layla begins to see her
  environment differently, the first step toward
  finding herself.

PETTING ZOO

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