Hernandez and Samit have been a writing team for more than a decade. “For girls coming up now, it’s an opportunity to see really fun adventure stories with a lot of heart and them in the hero’s shoes. “I kind of see this as my way of giving back,” she says. She sees her role as an important one in the bigger picture of bringing female action heroes into the zeitgeist.
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“It really does a deep dive into these four girls and their friendship and what is identity, what is destiny, what is fate,” says Folsom, who grew up watching almost exclusively “boy” heroes in coming-of-age movie classics of the ’80s and ’90s.
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Next up is showrunning Amazon series “Paper Girls,” based on the time-travel graphic novel series by Brian K. Taking on writing “Toy Story 4” was about finding something intrinsically meaningful and forward-looking about these beloved characters. Scoring a stellar 97% critics’ score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, “Toy Story 4” proved to be the exception to the rule that sequels are but mere echoes of their predecessors.įolsom’s Black List script, “1969: A Space Odyssey of How Kubrick Learned to Stop Worrying and Land on the Moon,” shot her into the big league a few years back. Perhaps it was this trust in the construct that let her take on the juggernaut that is the “Toy Story” franchise for “Toy Story 4” with such sweet and smart aplomb. “As an outsider, I really found my place in the world in movies…They saved me,” she says. Growing up in the military town of Colorado Springs, Colo., Folsom, the daughter of “civilians,” learned to lean on movies for constancy when her military friends and neighbors would inevitably shuffle off to other posts. Influences: Steve McQueen, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Béla Tarr She’s a remarkable woman who led a tremendous life.” “I’m working on a rewrite of the script and I’ll be directing the film, which tells Elaine’s story of being the first female leader in the Black Panthers. Up next is an adaptation of “A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story,” the memoir by Elaine Brown. My goal is to continue to evolve as an artist.” My true passion is making films, and I’m open to all genres, but it has to come from a level of human authenticity.
“I taught for over 10 years and I still keep in touch with students. Telling stories is what Chukwu was born to do, she says. “But I have fun memories of watching ‘Coming to America’ with my family. “I’m a child of Nigerian immigrants who wanted their daughter to do anything but the arts,” she says. Growing up, Chukwu wasn’t raised in a film-obsessed household, but that didn’t prevent her from becoming enamored with the medium.
You can’t define people by their worst possible actions, and that thought directly impacted my creative process.” “While making the film, I spent years working with activists and lawyers. Her new drama “Clemency” centers on a prison warden (Alfre Woodard) tasked with overseeing executions of death-row inmates. “I’m interested in stories that come from a place of empathy, and I want to root my characters in emotional truth.”
“I approach storytelling through a very human perspective,” says filmmaker Chukwu.
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