Beth de Araújo JOSEPHINE LFF reflection
by Murphy Popcorn 🎪: Beth de Araújo
Beth de Araújo reflects on the winding path to LFF with 'JOSEPHINE', revealing how she was once devastated that the film couldn't launch as her first feature. That earlier struggle came from making 'Soft and Quiet' with very few resources, a lesson that taught her directing is really about managing stress levels. She believes every director occupies a specific life stage during filming where whatever they feel comes through in the project. Feeling proud of both 'Soft and Quiet' and 'Josephine' for different reasons, she's glad she went through that process once before so she could be there for Gemma Chan, Channing Tatum, and Mason Reeves as much as possible.
Transcript (en)
You know, at the time I was quite devastated that I couldn't get Josephine up off the ground to be my first feature film, but I'm now very grateful for it because Soft and Quiet, we have very, very little resources to make, and so much about directing is how you manage stress, and so I'm glad I went through the process once before I, you know, was there with Gemma and Channing and Mason to be there for them as much as possible. yeah and I think I think you can I think in perhaps every director's life when they're shooting a film they're in a certain place in their life and whatever it is that they're feeling it kind of comes through in the project and I think I was in a certain place when I made Soft and Quiet and I was in a certain place when I made Josephine and you know I feel proud of them for different reasons and incredibly proud of my collaborators.
