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Chatting With Writer/Director Patricia Rozema About Into the Forest

From her 1987 debut feature Ive Heard the Mermaids Singing to Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), writer-director Patricia Rozema makes films with women characters that drive the action. But what’s unusual is how sanguine Rozema is about the always-looming issue of the dearth of central women’s roles and the financing obstacles most female-led films face, if they are not about Ghostbusters.

“You just never know what’s plain old getting-a-film-together difficultness and what’s because-it’s-girls difficultness.

By  |  July 28, 2016