‘A Teacher’ Writer-Director Hannah Fidell Says “Intent Was To Really Show How Complicated Consent Is” – Contenders TV
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deadline.comWriter-director Hannah Fidell had already made the acclaimed indie film A Teacher in 2013, but when the opportunity arose to expand the story as a television series and really bring out all its complexities, she jumped at the chance.As she said during the FX series’ panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event, the story of a teacher who embarks on an affair with her 17-year-old high school student is controversial, but she needed the audience to feel sympathetic to the central characters — at least in the early episodes of the 12-part half-hour limited series.“Definitely from the get-go our intent was to make the audience feel complicit.
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