VIDEOCAST #13 - PFB at the Lounge
Captured At The 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Videocast on Friday, February 3, 2006
Recorded on Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Produced by Cyndi Greening
Videography by Cyndi Greening
Posted from Park City, Utah
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(From the QueerLounge.Org) Writer/Director Maria Maggenti brought her new digital feature, PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS, to Sundance 2006. The film takes chance meetings, modern-day dilemmas and sexual flexibility and creates a sophisticated comedy about one woman who finds herself in two complicated love affairs--with a man and a woman who were once lovers themselves.
Explore how this kind of cinema rarity—a film directed by a woman, featuring strong female leads and inclusive of same-sex relationships between women—is getting financed these days. Produced under the InDigEnt banner, Puccini for Beginners utilized new film technologies and worked within a genre—romantic comedy—that proved broadly successful for its indie predecessor, KISSING JESSICA STEIN. Maria Maggenti and producer Eden Wurmfeld discussed these themes. Moderated by Jennie Livingston, the director of the ground-breaking documentary, PARIS IS BURNING, the shorts WHO'S THE TOP? and current Sundance entry, THROUGH THE ICE, as well as her upcoming personal film, EARTH CAMP ONE.
