“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. Hard is what makes it great.” — Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) A League of Their Own *
I blame an Austin Film Festival talk by Peter Hedges for my realization that directing would further satisfy the bossy, control freak tendencies encouraged by writing. Herewith, my storyboard for The Maid of Honor.
Some highlights of her film, video, and TV experiences:
- Reconciling Jimmy — one-hour procedural pilot
- Blue Bloods — “Talk to Me” — one-hour procedural spec script
- The Maid of Honor — narrative comedic short (see my storyboard, above)
- The Jane Austen Syndrome — feature screenplay
- A gazillion hours of Doubleday editor and author videos (producer), which Valerie now wishes she had kept for blackmail purposes.
*Screenplay by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel