Jacqueline Christy's Magic Hour Is Here

In this Janette’s TV Podcast episode, Jacqueline Christy is the film Magic Hour writer and director. She is also founder of Access Theater. She received her MFA from the NYU Graduate Film Program at Tisch. Her work includes Radium Girls, Equity, Rehearsal. Magic Hour is her debut film that showcased at The Santa Babara International Film Festival (SBIFF). After years of procrastination and self-recrimination, the film deals with a middle aged woman, Harriet, who decides to upend her life and go to film school in an effort to realize a lifelong dream. Comic adventures and self-discovery ensue. Jacqueline and I talk about the importance of doing a coming of age film around the character Harriet who is already of age, how Jacqueline found a good balance between the comedic & serious tones of the film, what women considering a change in middle life can learn from this film, how the film & characters represent Jacqueline’s experience in the film industry, and more!