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What I Saw from Where I Stood | Marisa Silver Overview
In the following essay, the critic gives an overview of Marisa Silver’s work.
Novelist and short story writer Marisa Silver is also a director of feature films.As the daughter of a director mother and a director/producer father, she came to movie-making in her early twenties when she and her sister made an independent film entitled Old Enough. Silver asked her sister, Dina, to produce the script she had written, and Dina agreed. Silver’s early film-making efforts were tinged with controversy, however. When she applied to the film-making workshop held by Robert Redford’s nonprofit Sundance workshop and was accepted, there were charges of favoritism...
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