Exclusive: Coming off a deal earlier this month to develop Judy Blume’s Wifey into an HBO limited series, Frankie Shaw is now setting her sights on the big screen again.
The Smilf creator is set to direct a feature adaption of essayist T Kira Madden’s acclaimed Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls memoir, I’ve learned.
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‘T Kira’s story is a lesson in radical self-acceptance, an open-hearted love letter to our pain and our mistakes, and proof that while we are fundamentally shaped by our trauma, it does not have to define us,” Shaw told me of Madden’s true tale of a queer, Chinese, Hawaiian and Jewish teenager growing up in the glare of Boca Raton,...
The Smilf creator is set to direct a feature adaption of essayist T Kira Madden’s acclaimed Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls memoir, I’ve learned.
More from DeadlineOscar Nominee & Sundance Film Festival Winner Heidi Ewing Signs With Wmecaa Signs Sundance 'Surge' Filmmaker Aneil KariaAmazon Closing Deal For Sundance Documentary Directing Winner 'Time'
‘T Kira’s story is a lesson in radical self-acceptance, an open-hearted love letter to our pain and our mistakes, and proof that while we are fundamentally shaped by our trauma, it does not have to define us,” Shaw told me of Madden’s true tale of a queer, Chinese, Hawaiian and Jewish teenager growing up in the glare of Boca Raton,...
- 3/20/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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