Chinonye Chukwu’s debut feature-film alaskaLand premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival and recently also played at the 21st Philadelphia Film Festival.
After several screenings at Pff I found time to sit down with Chinonye and chat about her film and working on a tight timeframe.
Neal Dhand: At the Q&A you mentioned that the script is partially autobiographical. Can you talk more about its genesis?
Chinonye Chukwu: From conception to completion the script took 4 months. It was just me and a really good friend of mine who’s a screenwriter. I’m writing draft after draft and he’s just annihilating it for four really intense months.
I had production mind while I was writing, so I was writing according to the resources that I had. Plot-wise it’s largely not autobiographical. I wanted to intentionally do that.
There are obvious parallels. My father’s a petroleum engineer.
After several screenings at Pff I found time to sit down with Chinonye and chat about her film and working on a tight timeframe.
Neal Dhand: At the Q&A you mentioned that the script is partially autobiographical. Can you talk more about its genesis?
Chinonye Chukwu: From conception to completion the script took 4 months. It was just me and a really good friend of mine who’s a screenwriter. I’m writing draft after draft and he’s just annihilating it for four really intense months.
I had production mind while I was writing, so I was writing according to the resources that I had. Plot-wise it’s largely not autobiographical. I wanted to intentionally do that.
There are obvious parallels. My father’s a petroleum engineer.
- 10/31/2012
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by Breaking Glass Pictures.
Directors: Tom Mattera, and David Mazzoni.
Writer: Harrison Smith.
Cast: Tara Reid, Cloris Leachman and Brian Anthony Wilson.
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Directors: Tom Mattera, and David Mazzoni.
Writer: Harrison Smith.
Cast: Tara Reid, Cloris Leachman and Brian Anthony Wilson.
Horror films and films in general have been set in cornfields for generations. From the original Children of the Corn (1984) to Jeepers Creepers II (2003) and more recently in The Maze (2011), cornfields can fill the viewer with dread. There is just no way to find your way out once in head height stalks. In The Fields, the cornfields host a supernatural force whose purpose is both malicious and purposeful. The one chosen to resolve this tension is Steven (Joshua Ormond) and with a 10 year old character leading the charge, you just never know what is real and what is imagination.
The story begins with the protagonist Steven and his bickering parents. There are stresses involving infidelity and violence with Steven...
- 3/14/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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