Jana Savage, WILDFLOWER
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews actress and screenwriter Jana Savage about Wildflower, a beautiful coming-of-age film that follows Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with two neurodiverse parents, starring Kiernan Shipka, Alexandra Daddario, and Charlie Plummer. Jana describes her path to screenwriting (she acted for many years prior) and then shares how she, Matt Smukler (the director), and the Morning Moon production team turned a difficult, real-life story into a poignant, darkly humorous, and joyful movie. She also talks about the writers’ strike, her favorite author, her next few projects (one is a sequel to an early-2000s movie with a bit of a cult following…), and her best advice for aspiring screenwriters.
You can now stream Wildflower on Hulu, or buy/rent on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, and YouTube.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.5 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Today I have a special guest who is Jana Savage, who actually |
| 1:08.2 | wrote the movie Wildflower. If you follow me on Instagram, you'll know that |
| 1:12.4 | my husband, Kyle, started a production company called Morning Moon Productions, and their first film |
| 1:18.6 | recently, very recently, came out on Hulu, streaming on Hulu, and is a really powerful, |
| 1:26.0 | wonderful film about a dark comedy about a high school senior who has |
| 1:30.8 | been raising her neurodiverse parents. It's funny and smart and all the good things. And a big part |
| 1:38.0 | of that is the script, which is written by Jana. So I talked to Jana about the movie and about |
| 1:43.2 | her career as a screenwriter and the strike and everything else that's going on. |
| 1:47.0 | So I hope you enjoy this episode and you should go on over to Hulu and watch Wildflower. |
| 1:52.6 | It's amazing. |
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