2024-12-13
34 分钟Director Christine Swanson discusses her new film, Albany Road, with fellow Director Shaz Bennett in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, she discusses favoring snowy locations for a setting not typical for the story she wanted to tell, progressively adding color to the film’s palette to indicate the growth of the two leads, and how she aimed to tell a story featuring unsung character types she’s known in her life. The film tells the story of Celeste Simmons, a New York executive on her way to the most important meeting of her career. Forced to share a rental car with her ex-fiancé’s mother, she discovers that the mother is hiding a major secret about her ex. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2025/January2025/AlbanyRoad_QnA_1124
One of the things that I really wanted to accentuate in the storytelling, we really played with the color palette to make sure that we felt the coldness not only in the atmosphere but in the relationship between the two characters.
And as the story begins to evolve, the palette gets warmer.
So they had to go on a journey together to figure out like what parts of each other that they could love and heal and evolve.
Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
In this episode, a road trip leads to possible life changing revelations in director Christine Swanson's romantic drama Albany Road.
The film tells the story of Celeste Simmons, a New York executive on her way to the most important meeting of her career.
Forced to share a rental car with her ex fiance's mother, she discovers that the mother is hiding a major secret about her exact.
In addition to Albany Road, Swanson's directorial credits include the feature films all about yout, All About Us, and For the Love of Ruth, the movie for Television, To Hell and Back, and episodes of Chicago P.D.
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following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Swanson spoke with director Shaz Bennett about filming Albany Road.
Listen on for their spoiler filled conversation.
Hey everybody.
Christine, first of all, congratulations.
Thanks for asking me to moderate because I just love the film.
I loved, you know, the whole emotion and you were the writer and director and I was just.
Thank you.
Exactly.
I was just telling you, I mean it resonated so much with me, with my own mom, but my mom is not like Lynn, but my mother passed away.
So I like, I wondered here, like as, as the writer, director, where what was the impetus to make this movie?