Director Hannah Fidell is scheduled to be present.
Series: International Art House Series, Running the Screen: Directed by Women
A young couple (American Horror Story’s Taissa Farmiga and Boardwalk Empire’s Ben Rosenfield) bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.
IU Alumna Hannah Fidell wrote and directed the feature film A Teacher, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and went on to play such festivals as SXSW where she won the Chicken & Egg Female Narrative Directing Award. In 2012, she was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film” list. Fidell is developing A Teacher into a television show with HBO and her second feature, 6 Years, premiered at SXSW in 2015. Netflix will release the film later in the year. She is a current fellow of Fox Studio’s Global Directing Initiative, a program aimed to get more women directing episodic television.
