A lot of people have asked me about Americanizing Shelly, the film I worked on last year as director Alan Smithee.
I haven't said much about it, because I didn't know what I could talk about and what I had to keep on the down-low, but I just read this story from the swnewsherald about the production:
The film tells the story of a wannabe Hollywood talent manager’s quest to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas. As he teaches her about the “American way of life,” they begin to see the world through each other’s eyes.
I didn't know this when I worked on it, but one of the co-producers was
just seventeen years-old! I'm totally blown away; we only spoke on the
phone and via e-mail, but if I hadn't read this article, I would have
thought she was a typical, experienced film-maker.[1] Good on ya, Natasha!
I also just discovered that the film has a website, which currently features a teaser trailer that includes me, in all my "incompetent director" glory. Right on.
[1] Oops. Mistaken identity. We never spoke with each other. However, it's still incredibly cool that a seventeen year-old got involved with the making of a movie (which I've just found out looks great and is cracking up all the people who have seen it during editing.)
