![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when she approached me about turning the play into a film, I said yes. She's won a number of awards (including Romantic Time's Career Achievement Award, the Rita and the Gold Medallion) and some of her books have been optioned for film/TV. Her annual Christmas novellas become more popular each year. Over the years, as she was researching and writing, we developed a strong relationship and I grew to trust her. Her young adult novels (Diary of a Teenage Girl, TrueColors etc.) appeal to teenage girls around the world. A page from Phoebe Gloeckner's own teenage diary. I thought that was so insane and I couldn't imagine it, so I said yes. Then, about eight years ago, Marielle Heller approached me about creating a play. Maybe it was because I had my own vision for a film version. Phoebe Gloeckner: Over the years, I've been approached by three different directors about turning the book into a film but I was never comfortable with the vision that they presented. Were you hesitant about handing over the rights to your story for stage and now, film? Q: The book is based on your own diaries and life growing up in 1970s San Francisco. Phoebe spoke to us about the upcoming film. The film will premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. Based on her own diaries growing up as a teenager in San Francisco in the 1970s, Diary tells the unflinching story of a young girl’s initiation into sex and drugs, beginning with an affair with her mother’s boyfriend.ĭiary of a Teenage Girl has been praised as “one of the bleakest and most brilliant books ever written about growing up female,” and has recently been adapted into a full length feature film, directed by Marielle Heller and starring Kristin Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard. Main characters edit Each of the series' major characters has serious family problems, but find their faith a grounding influence. She’s repped by UTA, Schachter/Brown and the BWH Agency.Long before Lena Dunham brought her groundbreaking depiction of the sexual life of post-college girls to HBO, Phoebe Gloeckner shocked audiences with her novel, Diary of a Teenage Girl. Diary of a Teenage Girl is a series of Christian young adult novels written by Melody Carlson. ![]() She’s wrapped production on Christopher Smith’s psychological thriller Detour, with Tye Sheridan, and is attached to star in Haifaa Al-Mansour‘s A Storm in the Stars and Marius Markevicius‘ Ashes in the Snow. She will next be seen in Drake Doremus‘ Equals, starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Directed by Marielle Heller and co-starring Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, Sony Pictures Classics is releasing Diary in the U.S. Powley, who was featured as one of THR‘s 10 Festival Breakouts, received strong critical praise for her work in Diary of a Teenage Girl, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and also screened at the Berlin Film Festival. Lissner’s popular book was first published in 2003 under Harlequin Enterprises’ female-centric Red Dress Ink imprint, which was launched to focus on the growing “chick-lit” market that included books with a humorous edge like Bridget Jones’ Diary. Kara Holden wrote the script, with Dean Craig working on later drafts. Radiant is handling international sales for the project. Suzanne Farwell, a longtime producer of Nancy Meyers‘ films, originally found and fell in love with the book and is producing Carrie Pilby, which is aiming to shoot in the fall in New York. Susan Johnson will direct the indie, which also stars Eddie Izzard, Jason Ritterand Tom Wilkinson. THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL is based on Phoebe Gloeckner's novel of the same name, hailed by Salon as 'one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up female in America.' Writer/Director Marielle Heller unlocks this diary with a richly comedic and deeply personal vision. Sundance Shortcuts: 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' Cast on Keeping Diaries (Video) ![]()
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