After seeing this film, you will never listen to the song row, row, row your boat

gently down the stream ever the same way again.

Howdy, I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A.

My agenda is simple.

Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of storytelling.

And no, you will never listen to Row Row Your Boat the same because this movie shows that

rowing a boat could be very difficult.

And I got to say, I am quite pleased to have with us today writer-director, Lauren

Hadaway.

And it turns out she's also a longtime podcast listener as well, which was really fun and added

some juice to the conversation because she was quite energetic about her answers and

in articulating her creative process. And look, the novice, her film, is nominated for five

independent spirit awards, which include best film, best director, best editing, and Lauren

Hadoaway co-edited it with Nathan Nugent, best female lead for

Isabelle Furman, and best supporting female for Amy Forsy. Without a doubt, as you're going to hear,

Lauren was very generous with her time and was just fantastic about articulating her creative

process and what it took to make her debut feature film,

so I know you'll dig this episode.

And speaking of things to dig, I know you'll also dig Backstory Magazine.

And we recently published our winner issue, our Dune issue.

Folks, you could read Backstory on a desktop or laptop or via our iPad app, Backstory.

And you know, one of the fun things about being a digital magazine is we keep putting in

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