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Lynn Shelton —
American
Director
born on December 30, 1965,
Lynn Shelton is an American director known for writing, directing, and producing such films as Humpday and Your Sister's Sister... (wikipedia)
For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.
There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music.
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.
I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.
Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.