Barbara and I are meeting today to work out The Plan. Liz Jarvis (our co-production partner at Buffalo Gal) will be joining us on the phone to strategize. Virginie Leger, our production manager, will come in and give us some $ reality checks. We need to determine if we can, and want to, shoot this like, right now. Or if we can, and want to, give ourselves some more lead-in time (casting, casting, casting) and look at shooting next spring... Much to discuss and determine... I'll be keeping you up to date as we get this all in place. It gets a lot more INTENSE from hereon in!!!
Where Can You See the Movie?
Keswick (England): Feb. 25th
Malmo (Sweden): March 13th-15th
http://buff.se/en/
USA – throughout on DVD, VOD
Canada - throughout on DVD, VOD
You Want Dolly to Come to Your Town? DEMAND IT!
Tara and Dolly in Nashville
June 2010
Movie Fun Facts!
Number of shooting days: 15 in Quebec, 14 in Manitoba
Number of women on the crew: 165
Number of times the title changed: 0
Number of bicycles standing by for the cliff scene: 2 (One wide shot and one medium slo mo!)
Number of Dolly wigs needed for the concert scene: 15
*Exteriors were generally shot in Manitoba and interiors in Quebec so more then one scene features an actor walking out of a room in one province into a different room in another!
*Dolly Parton approved each and every photo of herself that appears in the film.
*The Dolly! show that Elizabeth is so inspired by in the film ran for one season only (1976-1977).
The Filmmaker - Writer/Director Tara Johns
- Tara Johns
- Montreal, Québec, Canada
- Born in Calgary, deflowered in Vancouver, indoctrinated in Montreal.
What's the Story?
It's 1976 and Elizabeth is just your average suburban 11-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive, when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother, Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed "truth" she's been clinging to, and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who's searching for a mother - both of them really searching for themselves.
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female coming of age story that explores the tension between creating identity and finding it within...
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