by indieWIRE (November 4, 2008) Editors Note: This interview was first published in January profiling first-time feature directors who had films screening at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Amy Redford's "The Guitar" opens in limited edition via Lightning Media November 7.
Amy Redford, who has acted in such films as "The Music Inside" as well as Sundance 2008 offering "Sunshine Cleaning," and is also he daughter of Robert Redford, will premiere her first feature film, "The Guitar," at Sundance. What the festival's Geoffrey Gilmore calls a "whimsical fairy tale," "The Guitar" follows Mel (Saffron Borrows), a unfortunate young woman who loses her job and boyfriend and finds out she has terminal cancer all on the same morning. Instead of giving in she embarks on a journey that Gilmore claims has the "kind of self-indulgent wish fulfillment that
we have all fantasized about." Based on a true story adapted by Amos Poe, "The Guitar" is...
Amy Redford, who has acted in such films as "The Music Inside" as well as Sundance 2008 offering "Sunshine Cleaning," and is also he daughter of Robert Redford, will premiere her first feature film, "The Guitar," at Sundance. What the festival's Geoffrey Gilmore calls a "whimsical fairy tale," "The Guitar" follows Mel (Saffron Borrows), a unfortunate young woman who loses her job and boyfriend and finds out she has terminal cancer all on the same morning. Instead of giving in she embarks on a journey that Gilmore claims has the "kind of self-indulgent wish fulfillment that
we have all fantasized about." Based on a true story adapted by Amos Poe, "The Guitar" is...
- 11/4/2008
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
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