www.julialederer.ca<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\nNY\nGlam: What projects\nare you currently working on?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nMy first feature film, an\nadaptation I\u2019ve written of my internationally acclaimed play, With Love and\na Major Organ, <\/em>is going to camera in the fall, so I\u2019m getting that polished\nand ready in combination with a couple of new scripts for theatre and\ntelevision.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNY\nGlam: What makes a film great for you? Are there certain\nqualities that make a film better for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI am\ndrawn to stories with both levity and depth. I love the use of imagination in\nstorytelling to help see the real world in a different way, and comedy that is unexpected,\nunique, and stays with me because it says something true (or is just incredibly\nfunny, so it brings me a lot of joy). With all art I\u2019m most excited when all I\nwant to do is open up the writer\u2019s brain and look in it. As in, how did they\npossibly come up with that amazing thing? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nNY Glam: <\/strong>As a\nscreenwriter, what is the most important aspect of building a character? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThey often\nfeel like friends — I try to create characters that I\u2019m invested in and\ncurious about, excited when they succeed and sympathetic when they don\u2019t. I\nrelate to their faults and am inspired by or envious of their strengths.\nCharacters that are people I want to know and know more about. I also think the\nway we act and appear to others is often vastly different than how we feel and\nappear to ourselves. Sometimes the distance and discrepancies between these parts\nof a character are the most fun and feel the most true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
NY Glam: Top 3 favorite projects that you have been involved in?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI hate rating\nthings (which is probably very Canadian of me) because I know I\u2019ll forget\nsomething! And each project is so different and I\u2019m grateful for all of them. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThree recent\nprojects I\u2019ve loved: writing my short film, IT\u2019S NOTHING (about a young woman\ndigging a hole the serves as a metaphor for a eating disorder), for lots of\nreasons \u2013 the challenge of it, the team I got to work with, and being from\nToronto, it was especially meaningful to have it premiere at TIFF. The\nconversations I\u2019ve had about how it resonates have made the anxiety I felt\nabout making it completely worth it. I wanted to try and show something\ncomplicated from the inside, in a way that could be more universally\nunderstood. I think we accomplished that as a team with the film, so I\u2019m very\nproud of it. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAnother is a short\nfilm I adapted from a play of mine, called SPOONING. It\u2019s about a woman who has\nbeen playing a spoon in Beauty and the Beast<\/em> for twenty-one years. We\nshot it in one day, one location, one (amazing) actor (Krista Morin), a tiny\ncrew lead by a (then) first-time director, Rebecca Applebaum. It\u2019s screened at\nfestivals internationally and won awards. It\u2019s a homage to WAITING FOR GUFFMAN\ncombined with my own experience playing a spoon. Which I did in my 20s for free\n(it was community theatre) because it was just the kind of experience I\ncouldn\u2019t turn down. Human cutlery. I regret nothing.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve been\nworking on a new play called SMALLBOTS. It\u2019s a little bit of a spin-off of\nanother play I wrote (a modern, feminist re-telling of Karel<\/strong> \u010capek\u2019s R.U.R., called U-R-U). SMALLBOTS is about\nwhat happens when adults start adopting robot kids instead of having human\nchildren, and how teenagers react. I was really inspired by recent youth\nactivism. I\u2019ve been developing it with a group of teenagers in the Senior\nCompany at the Young People\u2019s Theatre in Toronto and having their feedback on a\nplay about their generation has been invaluable. They were supposed to perform\nit in June, but now something online is in the works instead. Which is funny with\nthis play, where technology is basically destroying everything humane. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nNY Glam: Do you express yourself creatively in any other ways?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI really just\nwrite, often in other mediums too. I love language. I love to look at visual\nart but I\u2019m not really one to make it. I used to do some acting and a very\nlittle bit of stand up comedy, but found I\u2019m much happier focusing on the\nwritten parts of any performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nNY\nGlam: What advice would you give to someone who wants to\nhave a career in filmmaking?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nPatience,\npersistence, and balance are things I\u2019m always telling myself to seek and\nfoster. Also, to try to find the balance between pushing forwards and taking\nrisks while also taking the time to stop and learn. I think it can feel like\nyou need to be constantly rushing in this industry, but things actually\n(usually) take a long time. You need to be able to be OK with that and love\nyour projects enough to want to stick with them. You also need to be able to\nlet them go. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nNY\nGlam: What can we\nexpect from you in 2020?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSocial distancing. After that, screenings of IT\u2019S\nNOTHING and EAT YOUR HEART OUT, and SPOONING will become available through\nCBC\u2019s Canadian Reflections series for streaming and broadcast in the\nsummer\/once things resume. There are some cancelled theatre productions that\nmight end up as online content. I\u2019m hoping to do some more television, so\nfocusing on that as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NY\nGlam: Where can\neveryone keep up with you to learn more? \u2026social media\u2026website<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nwww.julialederer.ca<\/a>\n, @juliabirdwords on twitter , @juliaalederer on instragram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive interview with Julia Lederer – Screenwriter Julia is a writer from Toronto, Canada. Her work has been described as: \u201cdelightfully original\u201d (Toronto Star), \u201claced with sophisticated poetry and wry insight\u201d (The Los Angeles Times), and \u201cdeliciously twisted\u201d (Chicago Standard). An internationally acclaimed playwright, her plays have been produced all over North America and in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-film","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19256,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions\/19256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}