In Rachel Israel’s The Floaters, Nomi (Jackie Tohn) reluctantly takes her old friend Mara (Sarah Podemski) up on her offer of a job working at their old smer camp, where Mara is now the director and in the middle of a war with a rival camp while dealing with other major repair issues she can’t afford.
Awards Buzz spoke with Tohn about how playing this part felt like her own experience growing up at camp:
“It doesn’t in that I was a camper when I went to camp and, in this movie, I’m a bad counselor. Well, I end up being okay. But it does mirror it in that my camp was Lokanda, which was upstate New York in a town called Port Jervis, which is literally the same town, tiny town, one stoplight, that Camp Tel Yehuda, that we turned into Camp David for the movie The Floaters, same town. So I was able to drop by my old camp and it’s really nice. Camp Daveed was, just seeing the bunks and the social hall and the cafeteria and it’s just like, shit, I’m back at camp. It’s not that hard to get into it when you’re in a practical setting like that.”…