.AFIFest's IndieContenders panel tout's small-budget stories: 'When studios backed out of the $20 million range, thank God indies were there'
s awards analyst Scott Feinberg moderated the 90-minute conversation inside the historic Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where the first Academy Awards ceremony was held, on Sunday afternoon.just the night before, took a 6 a.m. flight to make it back to Los Angeles in time for the overarching discussion. Looking back on when he first got Scott Z.
That joke led to a concept trailer released on Vimeo with Fails narrating his original story about his grandpa and his house in San Francisco, which spurred into a Kickstarter, and then a short film that took the duo on a fateful trip to Sundance. "We were promotingwhen we were there because it was the movie we wanted to make, but we wanted to have experience shooting an actual movie," Fails said of the venture, where they met Christina Oh from Plan B.
As Woodard, Erivo and Washington came up through theater, Washington shared that she partly wanted to produce and star inbecause "I don't think we always do a great job with diverse voices in the theater. But about 15 years ago when DVD's happened and margins crashed in filmmaking, it became of the decision that 'We cannot mess around in that $20 million range. We can't make movies there because the ROI is not productive enough,'" she said.
Washington echoed Brown's sentiments of realizing "the inescapable vulnerability that comes with parenting as a black woman" in her role as Kendra. As the play was one of her first roles after seven seasons of playing the impermeable Olivia Pope on ABC's Washington saw that in a 90 minute play, "here was a woman trying to have some sense of agency and control to find her son. In hindsight, the writers decided onfor Olivia to never have children. She had an abortion.
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