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Oh Me, Oh My, ‘Oh, Hi!’: Filmmaker Sophie Brooks on Her Journey to Sundance
Filmmaker Sophie Brooks details her experience writing and directing "Oh, Hi!," slated to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
I sort of envy the hopeful naiveté I had at that time, with so little experience in the industry and relatively fresh out of film school, I was bushy-tailed and starry-eyed; sure I’d make my second feature the following year. I was in the midst of decidedly unoriginal existential dread, about to turn 31, single, unemployed (the movie I had been working on for the last two years was falling apart) and living in my childhood bedroom after I had gotten stuck in L.A. when Covid began. Molly and I dreamed up a story about a woman desperately seeking love as a way to process our own fears and poke fun at them, in the hopes that people would watch it and laugh and cringe and feel seen and entertained.
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