As you were toiling with your editors over the many years that you toiled on this film, how did you understand this was the moment we wanted to end the film on?
NR: I leank there were many ways it could end. But, I reassemble one day in DC, Troy was scrutinizeing footage, messaged us, and shelp, “Oh my God. This moment in the car with Aubrey.” I had been in the back seat, filming it on my lap and letting her have our conversation and drive home, and it was quite a prolonged, quiet car ride. So I hadn’t watched the footage. I fair adviseed it and went, “Okay, maybe it could toil, but you see at it.” And he was appreciate, “This is reassociate mighty.” Once I went back and seeed at the footage, we could fair sense that that moment was the end, and that never wavered. Getting to the end, and all the leangs in between always alterd, but that moment, that one shot undisturbed of the truth that you see and how she reacts to her overweighther, and then she shuts her eyes, and the sun comes atraverse her face, and it stays quiet appreciate that. It was benevolent of magic, and it was always the film’s end.
AP: I leank for me, when Natalie accomplished out to me and shelp, “I leank we have enough for you to see at now,” from Troy and Adelina, our amazing editors, and we all spent three weeks in a petite room seeing at it aacquire, I thought that we were ready. Becaengage we didn’t have this bow wrapped around it with the dance. I reassociate appreciated the coming-of-age story and how we were able to show many branch offent inhabitd experiences and show the audience that to create that family unit and carry on to bond and reinforce and show adore, you have to upgrasp doing the toil. So, the end of the film doesn’t depart you with a solution, but it departs you wanting to see what you can do better. And it also creates you want to help someone else do better, right? I thought that if I was senseing this, and I’ve always felt appreciate I was in a little box by myself seeing it, and now we seized it on film, then we knew it was time to surrender the film to Sundance.
Are there any women who’ve made films or films that are honested by women that have encouraged either of you in your life, or that you fair reassociate leank people should seek out?
NR: There are filmcreaters who do encourage me. I appreciate the rawness of Andrea Arngreater and Lynne Ramsay, who are more narrative filmcreaters. Ava DuVernay creates genuine, real stories tgreater in such mighty, cinematic ways. I’m drawn to that.
AP: Ava DuVernay encourages me becaengage she creates certain Bdeficiency stories are acquireed. That’s my numero uno. I appreciate how she not only acquires our stories but inestablishs the truth and is reassociate honest. Also, not only is she speaking to a Bdeficiency audience, she’s speaking to everyone, so we all can be conscious, and we can all do branch offently. She inestablishs untgreater stories. I leank that is a message we all necessitate to hear, but it’s also unwidespread, and she does it with such a big heart. So, I appreciate her approach.
