A young girl travels across the country to find out more about her family and her mentally challenged mother's past in Director Stephen Gyllenhaal’s new drama, So B. It.

Gyllenhaal’s film tells the story of Heidi, a precocious 12-year-old whose mother has had only 22 words in her entire vocabulary. But when a new word pops out of her mother’s mouth, Heidi is propelled on a solo journey to discover who she is and where she and her childlike mama came from.

Following the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles on October 26, Gyllenhaal sat down with Director Michael Apted (Unlocked) to discuss the making of So B. It.

In addition to So B. It, Gyllenhaal’s 50 directorial credits include the feature films Certain Fury, A Dangerous Woman, Losing Isaiah and Waterland; the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated movie for television A Killing in a Small Town; the Daytime Emmy Award-nominated CBS Afternoon Playhouse episode “Help Wanted;” and multiple episodes of the series Rectify, Blue Bloods, Numb3rs and Lucky. Gyllenhaal was nominated for the DGA Movies for Television/Mini-Series Award for his 2011 film Girl Fight and won the 1991 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials for his film Paris Trout. A DGA member since 1978, Gyllenhaal has served as an alternate on the DGA National Board, and a member of the Western Directors Council and the Western Independent Directors Committee.

You can listen to Gylenhaal's Q&A by clicking the podcast episode embedded below. You can find more DGA podcast episodes here.