A Little Prayer marks yet another winner for Angus MacLachlan at the Sundance Film Festival. His first feature as screenwriter, Junebug, scored a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the festival and also went on to earn Amy Adam her very first Oscar nomination. Now he’s back in Park City with a film he wrote, directed and produced, and it’s being showered in critical praise and also scored distribution via Sony Pictures Classics.
A Little Prayer stars Jane Levy as Tammy, a woman living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with her husband, David (Will Pullen), and his parents, Bill and Venida played by David Strathairn and Celia Weston. When Bill becomes suspicious of David’s loyalty to Tammy, he struggles to both understand his son and protect his daughter-in-law.
While celebrating A Little Prayer’s big debut at Sundance 2023, MacLachlan, Levy, Weston, and Pullen visited the Collider Studio presented by Saratoga Spring Water to recap their experience bringing the piece from script to screen. During the chat, everyone praised Strathairn’s work in front of the lens and emphasized that he’s a wonderful person off-camera as well, Levy described her experience filming an especially challenging scene on a particularly devastating day, MacLachlan discussed his approach to directing actors as an actor himself, and so much more.
You can hear all about it straight from MacLachlan, Levy, Weston, and Pullen in this video interview!
Special thanks to our 2023 partners at Sundance including presenting partner Saratoga Spring Water and supporting partners Marbl Toronto, EMFACE, Sommsation, Hendrick’s Gin, Stella Artois, mou, and the all-electric vehicle, Fisker Ocean.
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