 Article in Filmmaker magazine Thursday, September 21, 2006
There's a nice little blurb on ALICE in the current issue of Filmmaker magazine, on stands now. The piece profiles participants in the 2006 Fast Track program. Alexandra Delyle writes:
"'One long summer in suburbia, a 12-year-old boy must deal with his self-absorbed parents and rebellious little sister... and the parasitic worm growing in her stomach.' That's the premise of Kia Simon's ALICE, an unsettling film about a brother and sister brought closer together by parental neglect.
Bringing warmth and humanity to troubling situations is a big part of Simon's directorial philosophy. 'My favorite films explore the world and human nature... laying humanity bare with all its warts and beauty,' says Simon, whose quirky LOOKING FOR SLY, about an Armenian Rambo impersonator and his search for Stallone, won the Best Short Doc and SXSW in 1998. Simon was first drawn to ALICE when she heard Elizabeth Bernstein's short story (by the same title) at a literary salon 'before it had been published, before it had won any prizes, before it was even finished,' and she participated in Film Independent's 2006 Directors Lab with Bernstein's screenplay in hand."
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