Lilly with Rachel Feldman and Amber Sealey (Ep. 545)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Director Rachel Feldman discusses her new film, Lilly, with fellow Director Amber Sealey in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, she discusses consulting the real Lilly Ledbetter in order to find the focuses of the film, utilizing archival footage to ground the story alongside the real events, and how her own filmmaking journey aligned with Lilly’s struggles in the film. Based on the true story of Lilly Ledbetter, the film follows a factory worker who discovers her company has been paying her half of what her male collegues receive. Seeking justice, she begins a long and historic fight for equality spanning all the way to Washington DC. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/events/2025/july2025/lilly_qna_0525

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0:00.0	I really tried hard not to impose a style on it.
0:04.5	Just let it be real.
0:06.1	And I had to hold back my desire to genre it up.
0:11.2	I just felt Lily is just real and authentic and plain spoken.
0:17.7	And I didn't want to fancy her up.
0:42.7	Okay. and I didn't want to fancy her up. Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:50.7	In this episode, a courageous factory worker fights for equal pay in director Rachel Feldman's drama, Lily.
0:57.1	Based on the true story of Lily Ledbetter, the film follows a factory worker who discovers her company has been paying her half of what her male colleagues receive. Seeking justice,
1:03.4	she begins a long and historic fight for equality spanning all the way to Washington, D.C.
1:09.9	Lily is Feldman's feature directorial debut.
1:13.5	Her other credits include episodes of Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods, The Rookie, Lizzie McGuire,
1:20.4	Sisters, and Picket Fences.
1:24.2	Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Feldman spoke with director
1:29.4	Amber Seeley about filming Lily.
1:32.4	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
1:40.2	Thank you guys.
1:41.7	Well, I just want to say this is such an honor for me to get to do this with you.
1:45.5	And the movie is amazing. So I want to get right to my questions, though, because we only have a certain amount of time.
1:53.6	The first thing that I am just so strong, watching the movie again with the audience was so powerful.
1:59.8	And just hearing the gasps and the
2:02.9	claps and the, you know, it's, it feels very, um, timely. And I can tell even in the audience,
2:10.3	it's an emotional watch because, um, the lessons are, you know, we're still living through these same struggles.
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