2 days ago I woke up in the middle of the night and thought: I’m too scared to publish this. I then remembered
#audrelorde
‘s “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” - it gave me courage. 🙏🏼 to the brilliant
@craftingmystyle
and
@nytimes
Excited and terrified by the road map of these 8 scripts, which took us all summer and fall to write. Shooting Part II of
@The_OA
starts Jan 2018. Here goes something...
@z_al
@BARFH
Emma Corrin and Harris Dickinson star in Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s limited series ‘A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD.’
Debuting on FX and Hulu on November 14.
amazing stuff on auction including my favorite
@The_OA
costume to raise health care funds for crew members affected by strikes // // help us protect the art of storytelling and each other 💥
@tusctogether
👉🏽 tune in today to
@TheEllenShow
— I get to talk about childhood alligator drama and fan impressions of Old Night
#TheOA
with a trailblazer I’ve long admired ❣️
I think often about how I owe my ability to make a living as a storyteller to
@sundanceorg
taking a risk on programming my first two micro-budget films at the festival. If you have the means — help keep independent storytelling thriving:
Join
@The_OA
writer/actor,
@britmarling
, in standing up for the future of independent storytelling. The time is crucial for artists all over the world: By making a donation to nonprofit Sundance Institute, you help bolster our many programs, labs, grants, and funds. Donate now.
If you want to feel hard won hope instead of utter despair at climate crisis read
@NaomiAKlein
‘s
#on
🔥. The equitable sane world many of us long for is actually within reach because of the GAMEOVER climate change presents if unmet by dramatic systemic change.
#GreenNewDeal
I think my heart just skipped a beat. I have read every book
@NaomiAKlein
has ever written — she’s a lighthouse in these turbulent times.
#ThisChangesEverything
is an urgent read.
You all know I am an overly serious Tweeter, freaking out about climate breakdown and corporate coups. But I interrupt that programming to say: watch
@The_OA
PART II this weekend. Do it with friends. Because it's brilliant and revolutionary and actually about another world, IMO.
It's been 16 months since I auditioned for
@The_OA
Part II so I'm ridiculously excited to be watching it
@netflix
today! To be part of the beautiful enigma that is
#TheOA
is truly a thrill & honour. Thanks to
@dominickevans
@z_al
@britmarling
for giving me this chance to believe
I have been telling stories with
@z_al
one way or another since we met when I was 18. At first we just told each other stories back and forth in our dorm rooms, later our living rooms,…
I accept the
#FilmStruck4
challenge from
@juliahartowitz
/// for me:::
RED (Kieslowski), PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki), THE PIANO TEACHER (Haneke), LA JETEE (Marker)
Think you are good at reading strangers?... think again: find a copy of
@Gladwell
‘s
#TalkingToStrangers
or listen to the audiobook, which is next level 💥
As a screenwriter constantly trying to find ways to dramatize the power of the tribe or partnership over the lone hero this essay by
#RebeccaSolnit
was very moving to me 🙌🏽
for anyone asking questions about
#DefundThePolice
I would read this op-ed in the
@nytimes
by
@prisonculture
to understand where police/prison industrial complex come from and why they cannot be reformed:
police and prisons have mushroomed in direct correlation to austerity measures as a way to enforce the “organized abandonment” of the most vulnerable by the right and by the left. Listen to Ruth Wilson Gilmore break it down and prepare to be dazzled 👉🏼
“What we’re trying to do is get people to understand the kinds of relationships that have normalized a sense that what prisons do is natural, normal, and inevitable,” says Ruth Wilson Gilmore on
@intercepted
.
Emma Corrin’s first camera test for Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s murder mystery series ‘A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD,’ premiering tomorrow on FX and Hulu.
🔗:
Brit Marling talks about subverting whodunnits in “A Murder at the End of the World”: "It felt like we could write a Gen-Z detective that could be the age and gender of a victim and put her in a position of power.” | Variety's "A Night in the Writers' Room"
If you have been waiting for a superhero origin story that is also a glorious celebration of WOC and feminine power, then go see
#fastcolormovie
THIS WEEKEND if you can! Grateful to
@juliahartowitz
@jehorowitz
for making this special film
turn your sound👆🏽
@matsor
composed the theme music for Part II (and Part I). For me the music he wrote for the theme over the credit sequence captures completely the feeling of a…
📣 See Brit Marling, co-creator/writer/director/EP/actor in ❛A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD,❜ at
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: Television
Saturday & Sunday
April 13th and 14th
LIVE IN-PERSON EVENT and Virtual Livestream
DGA Theatre, Los Angeles
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Dig this piece about Lauren Berlant by
@huahsu
// reframing the american dream as “cruel optimism” — an asymptotic function of always approaching and never realizing
I've been working with my publishers to get The Shock Doctrine available for free or almost free. Here is my UK publisher offering the ebook for 99p. I'll be donating any royalties from this to mutual aid projects.
@Brollender
@jasonsfolly
@PatrickGibson00
@netflix
@TempestBeauty
I feel grateful you shared your story with us. It must have been difficult to write. It brought tears to my eyes and made me feel as though we had made something useful, which is a beautiful feeling. You, your family and Rory are in my thoughts.