Synopsis

College student Ella is completely focused on her ambiguously romantic relationship with her dorm-mate, Chris. She is so consumed by trying to understand his behavior that she's neglecting the screenplay she is supposed to write in order to graduate. When she does sit down to work on the script, her increasingly awkward social life bleeds onto the page and her work begins to express her true feelings about her own situation. (IMDb)

Notes

"I had picked up 'Funny Ha-Ha' at the video store when I was sick with mono. I had never heard of Andrew Bujalski. I wasn't, like, up on film-festival stuff, and I watched it and it really rocked my world off its hinges. I didn't want to make that movie, but there was like a good mix of humor and sadness and an immediacy in that movie that I wanted not to replicate but to tap into." -- Lena Dunham, Filmmaker Magazine interview, March 2009