Chinonye Chukwu’s debut feature-film alaskaLand premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival and recently also played at the 21st Philadelphia Film Festival.
After several screenings at Pff I found time to sit down with Chinonye and chat about her film and working on a tight timeframe.
Neal Dhand: At the Q&A you mentioned that the script is partially autobiographical. Can you talk more about its genesis?
Chinonye Chukwu: From conception to completion the script took 4 months. It was just me and a really good friend of mine who’s a screenwriter. I’m writing draft after draft and he’s just annihilating it for four really intense months.
I had production mind while I was writing, so I was writing according to the resources that I had. Plot-wise it’s largely not autobiographical. I wanted to intentionally do that.
There are obvious parallels. My father’s a petroleum engineer.
After several screenings at Pff I found time to sit down with Chinonye and chat about her film and working on a tight timeframe.
Neal Dhand: At the Q&A you mentioned that the script is partially autobiographical. Can you talk more about its genesis?
Chinonye Chukwu: From conception to completion the script took 4 months. It was just me and a really good friend of mine who’s a screenwriter. I’m writing draft after draft and he’s just annihilating it for four really intense months.
I had production mind while I was writing, so I was writing according to the resources that I had. Plot-wise it’s largely not autobiographical. I wanted to intentionally do that.
There are obvious parallels. My father’s a petroleum engineer.
- 10/31/2012
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
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