I met David O. Russell at a party once. Yes, this anecdote could go a lot of dubious directions but we simply exchanged a few polite words. I was in post-production on my first feature and he was also in post on a film (later unreleasable) and he smiled, sighed, and said “isn’t it a damn hard thing to make a good movie?” Every aspect of this industry is hard – being under a microscope as a woman, lack of opportunities, mentorship and a system that seems constantly stacked against us – but what we overlook is that sometimes the…
Author: Emily Dell
Emily Dell
Emily Dell directs and writes feature films, shorts, webseries and more, stories with action and energy. Her Hip-hop film B-GIRL airs on Netflix, Showtime and Starz and won “BEST FEATURE” at the LA Femme Film Festival. Action short THE COMPASS ROSE won “BEST ACTION” at the Buffalo Film Festival. She is under contract to write/direct “THE RULES OF BUSINESS” for The China Film Corporation (The Karate Kid, etc). With sister/Producer Elizabeth Dell, they are featured in the National Women’s History Museum in Washington D.C. She is a member of The Writer Guild, Film Fatales and the Alliance of Women Directors. Currently she can be found in Los Angeles finishing post-production on a$$-kicking webseries SUBJECT 5 and BLACKWELL SUMMERS MYSTERIES, writing the comic book “ROMEO AND JULIET AND GUNS” for imprint Emet Comics and not preparing for the apocalypse. Not even a little.