Feature: Julia Hart (“The Keeping Room”)

Nice feature on screenwriter Julia Hart in the L.A. Times, whose new movie The Keeping Room premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday.

The movie’s plot summary: Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women — two sisters and one African-American slave — must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.

An excerpt from the feature:

“I so rarely see women talking to women in film,” Hart said. “It started from a place of race and gender, but also just wanting to see women talking to each other. It couldn’t just be one woman defending herself against the men. I wanted it to be a group of women together. Because that relationship, to me, is the center of the film.”

For the rest of the article, go here.

For my February 2013 interview with Julia, go here.