Screenwriting From Iowa

Here’s writer/director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) hitting on a theme that’s been central to this blog for ten years. I’m interested in cinema representing places that don’t usually get representation. I think cinema is one of the better documenters of place. When I go to movie theaters  and I see a world that I haven’t […]

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“I wanted to make something set in Sacramento, because I am from Sacramento and I love it. I had the idea of wanting to make a love story between a mother and a daughter, but the line I actually started with was the moment in college when someone says, ‘Where are you from?’ and she […]

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