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Wendy and Lucy Were the World Mine
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Director/Editor: Kelly Reichardt a73 Producers: Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani a73 Director: Tom Gustafason a73 Executive Producers: Gill Holland, Jon Sechrist, Reid Williams,
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Screenwriters: Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt a73 Cinematographer: Sam Levy a73 Principal Richard Zanetti a73 Producers: Tom Gustafason, Cory James Krueckeberg, Peter Sterling a73
Cast: Walter Dalton, Will Oldham, Will Patton, John Robinson, Michelle Williams Screenwriters: Tom Gustafason, Cory James Krueckeberg a73 Cinematographer: Kira Kelly a73
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wendyandlucy.com Editor: Jennifer Lillys a73 Music/Composers: Jessica Fogle, Tim Sandusky a73 Principal Cast:
Nathanial David Becker, Tanner Cohen, David Darlow, Ricky Goldman, Jill Larson, Judy
Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain) is
McLane, Wendy Robie, Christian Stolte, Zelda Williams a73 weretheworldminefilm.com
driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative
work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new
If you had a love potion, who would you make fall madly in
life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon,
love with you? Timothy, who is prone to escaping his dismal
however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart,
high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, is cast
and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic
by his eccentric teacher as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s
decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy.
Dream. He stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to
create the play’s magical, purple love pansy.
Wendy and Lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at
the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of
His magic love potion turns his narrow-minded town inside-OUT,
people’s duty to each other in tough times. Based on short story
beginning with the rugby-jock of his dreams. Ensnaring family,
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Train Choir by Jon Raymond. Opening Night Film. [language]
friends and enemies in this heart-wrenching chaos, Timothy
forces them to walk a mile in his musical shoes. The course of true
Sponsor: Bloomsbury Books
love never did run smooth, but by the end of this moving musical
Kelly Reichardt
comedy of errors, the bumpy ride comes to a heartfelt conclusion.
With vibrant imagery, and a first-rate ensemble cast who can
Director’s Statement
really sing, this playful, fun film embraces serious issues of
identity, love and acceptance. [adult content, language]
We felt like the times were right for a real
financially driven plot-line. Jon wrote a few
Tom Gustafason
drafts of the story, and then I wrote the
screenplay. Once shooting began, the actors
Director’s Statement
also made their own contributions to the
Throughout the journey of conceiving,
dialogue and characterization. There is something elliptical
producing and promoting Were the World
about Jon’s writing. His stories are very open and leave a lot of
Mine, we’ve encountered two obstacles.
room for the reader to bring their own experiences to the
Sadly, numerous festivals, distributors and
subject. This translates well to my approach to filmmaking. He
press converged to categorize our film as
also is very good at setting people into their environments so
“for gay audiences only.” In fact, we think the film should be
that whatever is going on with them internally is linked to
seen most by those who are quick to judge it based on its gay
where they happen to be. The landscape becomes more than
characters. Because, not only does it have the ability to sway
just a place, but something like a character in the story. Which
hearts and minds, it explores universal ideas and themes.
fits with my own longterm interest in representing the
American landscape.
But, more troubling has been the misperception of today’s
queer youth reality. Throughout the journey, we’ve been asked
I knew I needed someone who could be very still without
to justify the need to tell a “bullied gay youth” story. A quick
coming across as emotionally dead or absent. In all her roles,
check of headlines in this country and around the world proves
Michelle Williams seems to have a lot going on internally. She
how crucial it is that the real reality is portrayed because the
just has that thing where something is always coming through
truth is: this kind of bullying and worse happens daily. Were the
in her eyes.
World Mine is for anyone who has ever used the power of their
dreams to overcome their status as an outsider.
Filmography: Ode, Old Joy, River of Grass, Then a Year, Travis
Filmography: Fairies, The Need
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