Jane Anderson on her Moving HBO Doc Packed in a Trunk

Writer-director Jane Anderson’s career has spanned film, theater and television. She never planned to make a documentary, let alone figure so prominently in one. But for nearly half her life, Anderson, most recently Emmy-nominated for her adaptation of Olive Kitteridge for HBO, has yearned to bring the artwork and the story of her great-aunt, Edith Lake Wilkinson, to the public.

That has happened with Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson,