Yes 🙌🏽 Thank you. Note to self trust audience to pick up a story (if you’ve made us care). A fellow speculative writer friend loves to drop kick her readers directly into the middle of the fray, which led our Clarion West classmates to ask, “Are we naked mole rats or what?”
Sarah Polley rules. “Women Talking” is one of the best titles - and films - ever made to show us what emotional intelligence, and democracy, looks like.
Yes 🙌🏽 Thank you. Note to self trust audience to pick up a story (if you’ve made us care). A fellow speculative writer friend loves to drop kick her readers directly into the middle of the fray, which led our Clarion West classmates to ask, “Are we naked mole rats or what?”
Sarah Polley rules. “Women Talking” is one of the best titles - and films - ever made to show us what emotional intelligence, and democracy, looks like.
It's a film I hope people pay more attention to in the years to come.
Ms Polley was inspiring in the filmmaker panel at Santa Barbara film festival 2023. The cast, too - such incredible performances!
SBFF was my first film festival. I actually talked about it in this article, not that you should read it. But it was a huge part of my first year in L.A. https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-young
Excellent point to bring out. Now, imagine your producers are in the West (where the finance is) and you’re writing an “Eastern” story
I can't imagine the absurdity of that experience.
I’m doing my PhD on it and the word “absurdity” would come up a lot if it weren’t for the rules of academic writing that proscribes such wordage ha ha
I remember listening to this podcast last year and it was one of my favorites! Women Talking was brilliant.
Yes, it was.