I’d love to hear how you developed the script.
Andrea Pallaoro: Well, it’s a film that I had envisioned as part of a much larger exploration on the traumas and the dynamics of what it means to feel abandoned and the consequences of that.
Features: Q&A
April 20, 2023
Carmen – Q&A with Melissa Barrera, Nicholas Britell, and Benjamin Millepied
by The National Board of Review
Did you find it helpful to engage with the previous iterations of the story when you were preparing for this film?
Nicholas Britell: Well, what was interesting, actually, was that when Benjamin first told me that he had this inspiration to to do Carmen, my first instinct was that I actually didn’t want to adapt or rearrange Bizet at all.
April 14, 2023
Showing Up – Q&A with Kelly Reichardt
by The National Board of Review
How did you get from First Cow to this story?
Kelly Reichardt: Well, both films were written with Jonathan Raymond and we started out with this idea of making a film of this little-known Canadian painter, Emily Carr. We wanted to focus on a ten-year period of her life when she was a landlord.
March 30, 2023
A Thousand and One – Q&A with A.V. Rockwell and Teyana Taylor
by The National Board of Review
A.V. Rockwell: I really wanted to tell a story, especially for my first film, that recognized my coming of age experience in New York City…
March 22, 2023
Palm Trees and Power Lines – Q&A with Jamie Dack, Leah Chen Baker, and Jonathan Tucker
by The National Board of Review
Was there an importance to telling this story at this particular time?Jamie Dack: I was writing this script at a certain time in my life where I was starting to look back on some relationships I had when I was younger—one in particular. I think due to my age, and time passing, I had started to look back on it differently.