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Alice is a 2022 American crime thriller film set in the 1970s, written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden, in her directorial debut. The film stars Keke Palmer, Jonny Lee Miller, Common, Gaius Charles, and Alicia Witt.
- A First-Time Director
- A Challenging Shoot
- An Intercontinental Workflow
- A Consistent Vision
- When Art Gets Real
Anyone who’s ever worked in the industry knows that getting to direct a first film requires a combination of hard work, tenacity, talent, and luck. Krystin’s background demonstrated the first three—she’d already worked on numerous movies with her mentor, Quentin Tarantino, and has sold several screenplays, including one to be directed by Joey Sollo...
There is no such thing as an easy shoot—there are only those that have fewer problems than others. In the case of Alicethere were the expected challenges going in: a first-time director, an indie budget, an ambitious script, and a tight production schedule. And then COVID happened. “We were literally a week out from traveling the talent to the loca...
Principal photography wrapped just before Thanksgiving. Krystin returned to Los Angeles, and Peter went home to Australia. But even though Krystin and Byron were in the same city, union COVID restrictions meant that they couldn’t physically be together. “We were never in the same room,” Byron says. “We did the whole director’s cut remotely.” Upping...
Despite the unexpected interference of COVID on the production, the one thing that didn’t change was Krystin’s vision, which the dedicated crew did their utmost to achieve. DP Alex Disenhof shot on ARRI Alexa minis using Cooke anamorphic lenses. The two locations are as different as can be. The plantation is a bleakly desaturated outdoor setting, a...
Krystin’s inspiration for Alicewas a story about a real woman in the 1960s who had been enslaved on a remote plantation and managed to escape. In Alice, the title character emerges in the 1970s, after the height of the Civil Rights movement which, while bringing the need for change to the forefront of American consciousness, still failed to bring a...
Alice: Directed by Krystin Ver Linden. With Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles. A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.
- (3.4K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Krystin Ver Linden
- 2022-03-18
Mar 14, 2022 · Unfortunately, Ver Linden’s mixing of a period drama of a Southern plantation with a 1970s Blaxploitation film that has a distinctly different storyline, falls short of the stars and relies on well-worn tactics to share its otherwise unique message.
Meet Krystin Ver Linden, writer and director of "Alice", which is playing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Presen...
- 6 min
- 3.4K
- Sundance Institute
Mar 18, 2022 · 'Alice' director Krystin Ver Linden breaks down the inspiring real-life emancipation stories behind her Keke Palmer-led debut.
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Jan 6, 2022 · Growing up a racial minority in mostly white Napa Valley, Ver Linden would often “escape” to the world of cinema, filling up notebooks with ideas for screenplays that she planned to write and direct.
