Birdie, starring Maeve Dermody, photographed by Nicholas Prokop. Still from interview for Flickerfest. Writer/director Shelly Lauman is nominated for Best Direction in a Short Film.
The Directors Guild is in a prime position to attract ace talent to open envelopes and they have taken advantage of that fact for 2019. The downside of this is that really good directors are often either working like loons here or clambering around in the Hollywood system. Ditto anyone else with a public profile.
