BPS 185: Confessions of a Writer/Director with Krystin Ver Linden

Today on the show we have writer and director Krystin Ver Linden.
She has always steered the course of her career and her life with
her love for film, and it shows through her work. She was recently
chosen as one of Variety’s2022 “10 Directors to Watch,” a coveted
honor. Ver Linden’s script Ride sold to Lionsgate with Joey Soloway
attached to direct and was featured on the Black List. She went on
to sell numerous scripts as well as the pitch Love in Vain, an
unconventional biopic centering around blues music pioneer Robert
Johnson. The pitch is set up at Paramount with Lorenzo di
Bonaventura, Mike Menchel and multiple-Grammy-winning recording
artist Lionel Richie producing.

Her new film is Alice.

Alice (Keke Palmer) yearns for freedom as an enslaved person on a
rural Georgia plantation. After a violent clash with its brutal and
disturbed owner, Paul (Jonny Lee Miller), she flees through the
neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a
highway, soon discovering the year is actually 1973. Rescued on the
roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank
(Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in
bondage and the promise of Black liberation. Inspired by true
events, Alice is a modern empowerment story tracing Alice’s journey
through the post-Civil Rights Era American South.

We discuss how she got Quentin Tarantino became her mentor and much
more. Enjoy my inspiring conversation with Krystin Ver
Linden. 

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