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Sarah Polley Grateful For Female Filmmakers Telling Her “Here’s How Fierce You’re Going To Have To Be” As A Director

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Sarah Polley, at the Telluride Film Festival for the world premiere of Women Talking, her latest film as a director, acknowledged how lucky she was as an actress to have worked with so many female filmmakers.

They told her to be “fierce” when they saw that she wanted to work behind the camera.Women Talking, based on Miriam Toew’s celebrated novel about a group of Mennonite women having to confront sexual assaults committed by men feeding their desires, is a powerhouse exploration of the female imagination.“This film began with three women talking a lot,” Polley said.

She was referring to Dede Gardner as producer through Plan B Entertainment, and Frances McDormand as a cast member and producer via her Hear/Say Productions, and Polley herself.Polley cited three female directors she’d worked with who helped pave the way for her as a director: Audrey Wells on her 1999 feature Guinevere; Kathryn Bigelow, whom Polley appeared for in the director’s The Weight of Water in 2000; and director Isabel Coixet’s films My Life Without Me in 2003 and The Secret Life of Words in 2005.“What happened with that generation of female filmmakers is when they saw someone coming up who was beginning to show any interest (in directing), those women grabbed onto me and said, ’You’re doing it,’ and here’s how fierce you’re going to have to be about it!

So there was mentorship, and I had those role models,” Polley said, speaking in an onstage conversation at the Telluride Film Festival.

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