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I was lucky enough to host a screening of Midwinter Break, and I got to interview the director of it,

Polly Finley.

She is absolutely amazing, a former theater producer turned

movie director, and listen to how she conceptualized the whole film, how it was adapted from a

novel, and all the rest, inside peak. Enjoy. Welcome, Polly. Thank you so much for coming on

totally booked. thanks for talking about

your beautiful film midwinter break congratulations thank you so much for having me and i'm so glad

you liked it i loved it as i was just saying i would frame any scene as a photograph on my wall it was

that beautiful that is so nice to me to say. Thank you very much. That's great.

So actually, we're having a screening tonight when this airs. It will have already happened.

But the editor of the book on which the film was based on my post and is actually coming to the

screening. Oh, no way, really? Yes. Oh, that's quite a big audience member. I'm nervous now. I want to know what they think.

I will let you know. How did this project come to be? Did you read the book and how did it come to be that this was a beautiful novel turned film?

Well, actually, if it happens, film four and the producer Guy Healy had picked it up a good

while before I was on board, and they picked it up pre-publication and had developed already

due to draw from the script by the time that I read it. So I had been directing a bit of theatre director mostly for the last 15 years or so.

And Guy, I think, had seen a couple of shows that I had done at the National Theatre here in

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