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Dec 2024
34m 44s

Albany Road with Christine Swanson and S...

DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA
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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

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