Screening followed by Q&A with writer, director Robin Swicord.
Moderated by Leonard Maltin.
SYNOPSIS
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
GUEST BIO
Robin Swicord is the screenwriter for Memoirs Of A Geisha, Little Women, Matilda (with her husband Nicholas Kazan), The Perez Family, and Practical Magic. Swicord made her feature writing-directing debut with Sony Classic’s The Jane Austen Book Club, produced by Julie Lynn and John Calley. Wakefield, her most recent feature as a director, is an adaptation of the E.L. Doctorow short story and stars Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner.
In 2009, Swicord received an Oscar nomination for her screenwriting contribution to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a project Swicord originated and worked on for more than a decade. Her original feature script The Promise set during the Armenian genocide was directed by Terry George directing and stars Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac.
Swicord is a Governor for the Writers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and she chairs the Academy’s prestigious Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriting. She mentors writers through The Sundance Institute and Film Independent and in the New Voices program for Humanitas. In 2015, she helped create and launch the inaugural Hedgebrook Screenwriting Workshop for women. Swicord is married to screenwriter Nicholas Kazan; they have two daughters, actor-writer Zoe Kazan and actor-writer Maya Kazan.
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