This story about Kyra Sedgwick first appeared in the Miniseries/Movies issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
It took Kyra Sedgwick nearly a decade to get “Story of a Girl” made into a movie, because people just didn’t get it. An intimate portrait of a family woefully unequipped to deal with their teenage daughter’s fitful transition into womanhood, Sara Zarr’s 2007 young-adult novel lacked the kind of flash necessary to attract the attention of Hollywood producers looking for the next “Twilight.”
But to Sedgwick, that’s exactly why the movie needed to be made.
“I thought, ‘Where are the stories about what real teenagers are going through?’ I didn’t feel like I saw it anywhere,” said Sedgwick, who made her directorial debut with the Lifetime film. “I know for me growing up, I always processed my feelings through art. We need to see ourselves reflected back from...
It took Kyra Sedgwick nearly a decade to get “Story of a Girl” made into a movie, because people just didn’t get it. An intimate portrait of a family woefully unequipped to deal with their teenage daughter’s fitful transition into womanhood, Sara Zarr’s 2007 young-adult novel lacked the kind of flash necessary to attract the attention of Hollywood producers looking for the next “Twilight.”
But to Sedgwick, that’s exactly why the movie needed to be made.
“I thought, ‘Where are the stories about what real teenagers are going through?’ I didn’t feel like I saw it anywhere,” said Sedgwick, who made her directorial debut with the Lifetime film. “I know for me growing up, I always processed my feelings through art. We need to see ourselves reflected back from...
- 6/15/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Based on the novel by Sara Zarr, Lifetime’s Story of a Girl tells the story of a teen whose life is changed when a sex tape is released on social media. The TV movie marks Kyra Sedgwick’s directorial debut, and even though she has never been part of sex tape scandal, she related to the story. Donning a “Women Support Women” shirt, Sedgwick talked to moderator Dawn Chmielewski about the movie and how it was a launch for her directing career.
“This is so uncomfortably similar to my feelings as a teenage girl,” said Sedgwick. “It’s about the fracturing of this family after what happens with this girl. We meet her three years later on how she is struggling with the slut shaming, how her father can’t look her in the eye, and how she is trying to live down this reputation.”
She adds that the...
“This is so uncomfortably similar to my feelings as a teenage girl,” said Sedgwick. “It’s about the fracturing of this family after what happens with this girl. We meet her three years later on how she is struggling with the slut shaming, how her father can’t look her in the eye, and how she is trying to live down this reputation.”
She adds that the...
- 4/16/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
After more than three decades as an actress and producer in Hollywood, Kyra Sedgwick is finally taking the leap behind the camera, making her directorial debut in Lifetime's coming-of-age TV movie, Story of a Girl.
Based on the 2007 Ya novel by Sara Zarr, the two-hour movie centers on a young teenage girl named Deanna (played by Banshee's Ryann Shane), whose sex tape goes viral in the sleepy town she's called home all her life, fracturing her relationship with her family and exiling her among her peers.
For Sedgwick, Story of a Girl hits close to home -- "So many things about the story rang true to me," she shared with Et -- and part of the reason why she was less hesitant about putting on the director's hat for the first time. For it to have been made into a movie is itself a feat, as Sedgwick optioned the book when it was first published and attempted...
Based on the 2007 Ya novel by Sara Zarr, the two-hour movie centers on a young teenage girl named Deanna (played by Banshee's Ryann Shane), whose sex tape goes viral in the sleepy town she's called home all her life, fracturing her relationship with her family and exiling her among her peers.
For Sedgwick, Story of a Girl hits close to home -- "So many things about the story rang true to me," she shared with Et -- and part of the reason why she was less hesitant about putting on the director's hat for the first time. For it to have been made into a movie is itself a feat, as Sedgwick optioned the book when it was first published and attempted...
- 7/20/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Laura Collyer‘s new project has just gained some Oscar-nominated star power. Naomi Watts (21 Grams) and Matt Dillon (Crash) have both signed onto star in Sunlight Jr. [Deadline]
Written and directed by Collyer, Sunlight Jr. tells the story of two low lifes who have become lost in society. Melissa, (Watts) who is a hard-working store clerk trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and ignorance with her paraplegic boyfriend Richie (Dillon). Melissa becomes pregnant, which sheds light on their situation, but things quickly spiral downhill when she looses her job and they are forced to live in a motel.
Collyer‘s past work entails the 1999 documentary centered on a Puerto Rican family living in NYC titled, Nuyorican Dreams and more recently SherryBaby, which Maggie Gyllenhaal received a Golden Globe nomination for. Sunlight Jr will be produced by Charlie Corwin (Half Nelson), Andrea Roa (The Aspen Papers) and Ariel Elia. Joshua Skurla (Rio,...
Written and directed by Collyer, Sunlight Jr. tells the story of two low lifes who have become lost in society. Melissa, (Watts) who is a hard-working store clerk trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and ignorance with her paraplegic boyfriend Richie (Dillon). Melissa becomes pregnant, which sheds light on their situation, but things quickly spiral downhill when she looses her job and they are forced to live in a motel.
Collyer‘s past work entails the 1999 documentary centered on a Puerto Rican family living in NYC titled, Nuyorican Dreams and more recently SherryBaby, which Maggie Gyllenhaal received a Golden Globe nomination for. Sunlight Jr will be produced by Charlie Corwin (Half Nelson), Andrea Roa (The Aspen Papers) and Ariel Elia. Joshua Skurla (Rio,...
- 10/31/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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