Hi! My name is Gillian Robespierre. I’m a writer-director and so thrilled to be attending the 2011 Ifp Emerging Narrative project forum with my script Obvious Child. It’s a romantic comedy about a young woman living in Brooklyn who has just had her heart broken, and after a spontaneous one-night stand, finds that she’s pregnant. She decides to get an abortion and move on with her life. Yes, it’s a comedy!
Obvious Child was originally a short film I directed and co-wrote with Anna Bean and Karen Maine. After years of watching films that featured unplanned pregnancies ending in childbirth (Juno, Knocked Up, Waitress, etc.), we became disenchanted with the way young women’s experiences with pregnancy were being represented in the media. With Obvious Child we wanted to tell a story of a strong, funny woman who easily makes the decision to have an abortion without feeling guilty or traumatized.
Obvious Child was originally a short film I directed and co-wrote with Anna Bean and Karen Maine. After years of watching films that featured unplanned pregnancies ending in childbirth (Juno, Knocked Up, Waitress, etc.), we became disenchanted with the way young women’s experiences with pregnancy were being represented in the media. With Obvious Child we wanted to tell a story of a strong, funny woman who easily makes the decision to have an abortion without feeling guilty or traumatized.
- 9/19/2011
- by Gillian Robespierre
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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