I got to study with Walter Pena, Annette Insdorf and James Schamus, and had an incredible education there. At that time Columbia didn’t have an undergraduate major in Film so I majored in Art History and continued with photography, but then started weaseling my way into the Columbia grad Film classes. But film for me was just an instant obsession. I had always done studio arts, a lot of photography, and I loved music. In that moment I knew that’s what I wanted to do. Nicole Kassell: I came to New York to attend Columbia University, and one of the first days of school a fellow student showed a short film he had made-it just blew me away – to see a peer make a film was a revelation. Science & Film: Can you tell me how you first became interested in film? Kassell spoke on the phone with Science & Film about PRODIGAL SUMMER. This is Kassell’s third feature film-her first film was THE WOODSMAN, an adaptation like PRODIGAL SUMMER, but of a play by Steven Fechter. Kassell and Kingsolver are co-writing the screenplay. The film was awarded a Lab Fellowship from the Sloan Foundation in partnership with the Sundance Institute in 2013. Writer and director Nicole Kassell’s new feature PRODIGAL SUMMER is a film adaptation of best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Prodigal Summer.
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