While his unnerving 1993 debut, “Clean, Shaven,” really floored audiences who saw it back in the day, when director Lodge Kerrigan’s belated third film “Keane” first made the rounds on the festival circuit in the fall of 2004, it reintroduced the filmmaker to the forefront of a then-flourishing American independent cinema. In the nervy, visceral portrait of a paranoid father searching for his abducted daughter and finding a surrogate in a pre-fame Abigail Breslin, he proved how much can be done with a modest budget under one mil and a spirit of resourcefulness.

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When Steven Soderbergh takes a filmmaker under his wing and aegis and tries to give him a little lift, that’s bound to mean that the filmmaker is exciting and worth the watch. Before they broke out big, Soderbergh shouted out filmmakers like pre- “Moonlight” Barry Jenkins and Amy Seimetz. Another filmmaker Soderbergh was an early champion of was Lodge Kerrigan, the filmmaker behind the excellent debut “Clean, Shaven,” and more recently “The Girlfriend Experience” on Starz.

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