Author at Large
I wanted to share a two-minute clip from the short film I wrote, A One Man Show, which was produced by Human Pictures in March. It’s for [Redacted]. I’m not allowed to say who had any hand in it publicly yet. They can neither confirm nor deny the existence of said film, but if it …
Beginnings * On New Year’s Eve 2019, also my mother’s birthday, I signed a contract for the option of a short script, In the Desert of Dark and Light. It was a proof of concept to help raise money for the feature. Jason Gurvitz, founder of Green Dog Films, had read a query I’d sent …
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The girls and I went to the U.S. premiere of HBO’s Ice on Fire. This documentary, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, and directed by Leila Conners with cinematography by (full disclosure time) my friend Harun Mehmedinović. It begins with DiCaprio narrating our state of existence and the precipice of disaster we are racing towards. He does …
In a crowded auditorium in Walla Walla, Washington’s Whitman College, a student raised his hand and asked Tim O’Brien why he wrote fiction about his war experiences. O’Brien said, “To tell truths that I can’t tell in nonfiction.” Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Pam Houston, Flannery O’Conner