Oct 3, 2017
John and Craig sit down with Marielle Heller, the writer and director of the acclaimed feature The Diary of a Teenage Girl, to talk about the journey of getting her movie made, from optioning the novel to the Sundance Labs through production.
We discuss sex scenes and ’70s wallpaper, anamorphic lenses and leaving subplots on the cutting room floor. Plus there’s a lot of MacGruber.
This episode originally aired August 25, 2015.
Links:
* Scriptnotes and
a live Three Page Challenge will be at the 2017 Austin Film
Festival
* Submit for the
Three Page Challenge
* Marielle Heller
on IMDb
* The
Diary of a Teenage Girl official site and the
trailer
* The
Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition by Phoebe
Gloeckner
* Scriptnotes, 121:
My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend’s Screenwriter, with Mike
Birbiglia
* Sundance
Institute Feature Film Program
* Director of
Photography Brandon Trost on Wikipedia
* Rotoscoping on
Wikipedia
* Mari Heller on
NPR’s Fresh Air
* VHS Camcorder
*
I’m Sorry I Didn’t Respond to Your Email, My Husband Coughed to
Death Two Years Ago by Rachel Ward
* The
Wonder Weeks App
* The Scriptnotes Listeners’
Guide!
*
The USB drives will be available again in a few days!
* John August on
Twitter
* Craig Mazin on
Twitter
* John on
Instagram
* Find past episodes
* Outro by
Jack Mazin (send
us yours!)
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
You can download the episode here.