This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool
As writers, some stories grab us and won’t let go. They hit us in the gut, they work their way into our bones, and they won’t release us until we write the story. For films, writing the story is merely the beginning. For many independent films, writing the story launches a journey over many years to see the film finally come to life. For Sundance 2013 U.S. Dramatic Competition film Mother of George, the project first traveled to Sundance as part of the Screenwriters Lab and Directors Lab back in 2005, and the story’s origin goes back further than that. To share with us the long journey of Mother of George from concept to finished film, we continue our series of interviews with Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition screenwriters with an extensive and generous interview with the film’s screenwriter and a producer of the film, Darci Picoult.
To give us a summary of the film, here’s a video introduction by Mother of George director Andrew Dosunmu from the Sundance Film Festival website:Darci Picoult is an accomplished and award-winning playwright. Her one-woman show My Virginia was presented in theaters and solo festivals both nationally and internationally, …
By: Christopher Boone
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