‘Project Greenlight’ Mentors Kumail Nanjani, Issa Rae and Gina Prince-Bythewood Share Challenges of Making ‘Creativity Competitive’
thewrap.comDo you feel like the genre aspect of the film Meko had to make presented certain challenges, and at the same time, benefits for viewers to see inside the process?Rae: As a producer, that was a learning lesson.
I felt like we were really ambitious on our side to one, I think that finding a talented female filmmaker wasn’t a challenge at all, it’s more just having them produce something with a limited budget in a limited amount of time.
That’s that’s just extremely challenging no matter what, and one of the things we’ve been discussing is obviously the script needed to be in the best shape.
So rewriting the script awesome in that timeframe is super challenging. Twofold, if I were to do again, I would make it a solid comedy or drama and make sure the script was super strong and then set the filmmaker on a main journey and that really is more about like how good of a director are you.
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