Marta Balaga India Donaldson picked up the Polish Film Institute Award for her upcoming feature “Good One” at the American Film Festival in Wrocław, coming with a $50,000 cash prize for post-production in Poland. “It’s an affirmation of how we have been working and what we have been working towards,” Los Angeles-based Donaldson told Variety after the ceremony. “Good One” – presented during AFF’s industry event U.S.
in Progress and set to be finished in January 2024 – sees 17-year-old Sam heading on a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills with her father and his oldest friend. “It’s a very personal story, although I wouldn’t say it’s autobiographical,” said Donaldson, who wrote the film during the pandemic. “I was living at home for the first time since I was a teenager.
With my father, my stepmother and my two teenage half-siblings, who were at high-school at the time. For the most part, we were having a great time, but I found myself jealous of my sister’s ability to rebel against her parents.
She knew how to be vocal about her feelings and how to express her anger.” “When I was growing up, my dad would say: ‘You are the good one.
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