DGA Monthly | Volume 5, Issue 9 - September 2008 | A Women’s Steering Committee Event: An Evening with Director Kari Skogland

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Actors Kevin Zegers and Ellen Burstyn join director Kari Skogland and moderator Jessie Nelson onstage to talk about Skogland’s new film The Stone Angel. - photos by Howard Wiseman - click images for larger views

Director/WSC Co-Chair Kari Skogland (center) poses with WSC members Nandi Bowe, Kathy Lubinsky, Co-Chair Carrie Rudolph, committee members, Drew Rosenberg, Roberta Sherry-Scelza, Tracy Britton, Betty Petitt, Lisa France, Co-Chair Donna Parish, and committee members, Sandra Milliner, Natalie Jason, Erma Elzy-Jones, and Jerri Sher, at the Committee’s pre-screening reception for The Stone Angel.

On July 24, the DGA Women’s Steering Committee (WSC) hosted a special screening of director Kari Skogland’s new feature film, The Stone Angel.

The screening was followed by a discussion about the making of the film with WSC Co-Chair Skogland (Fifty Dead Men Walking, Liberty Stands Still), and moderator Director Jessie Nelson (I Am Sam; Corinna, Corrina) in DGA Theatre 2 in Los Angeles. They were joined onstage by the film’s star — Academy Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn — and co-star Kevin Zegers.

Skogland had high praise for the contributions of her cast. “One of the things I really believe in is trusting the actors,” she said. “They know their characters tremendously well so, it was really great to make a film that way — where it feels like we’re in partnership — because I think that’s how it should be.”

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