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Racing Daylight

Drama, English, 85 min. USA
Website: www.RacingDaylightTheMovie.com

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Racing Daylight

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Photo by Dion Ogust/Jamie Midgely

 

Director Statement

I am a young filmmaker. I am a woman. I am a woman of color. In my 20s I was an union actor spending 6 months of the year in regional theaters with Shakespeare and the Greeks. By 30 I had become a mother, a job I took seriously having grown up in boarding schools, ages 8-17, schools my sister and I would integrate in the early 1960s in Southern California and in Mexico. At 40 I was penning scripts as a WGAE writer for Hollywood, none of which were ever produced, though there are some gems to be mined among them. At 50, my present age, I have become a filmmaker, directing my own script Racing Daylight into an uncompromised rendering of a world where anything is possible.

From my present vantage point I have come to see that 'how' something gets made is even more important than that it got made. Quality of life, quality of story, these are the benchmarks by which Sophia Raab-Downs (producer) and I have decided to make films which enlighten as they entertain.

I believe that the images we put energy into are the ones that manifest. I want to change the conversation to things which interest me. I want to see women age on screen ... eat and and gain weight on screen ... without talking about it.

No longer worshiping the holy trinity, our culture's gods "blame, shame, and guilt," I want to talk about what is common to us all, beyond culture and class, religion and creed. Our common humanity, our ability to think, create, love, lose, and love again. Fables, myths predicated on the histories of our collective civilizations, our biggest mistakes becoming our greatest triumphs. These are the worlds which interest me ... the misfit in all of us finding the strength to flourish and not just survive.

Production Notes

"Racing Daylight recipient of WIF finishing funds"
Racing Daylight is this years recipient of the Women in Film Finishing Funds, narrative feature.

News & Reviews

http://homepage.mac.com/wff/wff-film-series.5.5.07/index.html

http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2007/5/Arts+&+Culture/Screen-Scene

"Locally made film is shown in Rosendale" By Germain Lussier, Times-Herald Record May 6, 2007 [PDF] (15 KB)

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