Director/writer Jane Clark (“Meth Head” &
“Elena Undone”) talks about her new comedy horror cult classic "Crazy
Bitches" with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of
OUTTAKE VOICES™. The movie is about eight gay and straight friends who go to a
remote ranch for a week of gossip and fun but after a number of drinks
on their first night a dark secret is revealed. The house they rented is
the site of an unsolved mass murder of teenage girls fifteen years
earlier and bloodstains are discovered under the replacement carpets. At
first they take it as an intriguing horror story for a rainy night by a
roaring fire but after one of them disappears and is discovered dead,
the story isn’t fun anymore. Then one by one they die, killed by their
own vanity and their fun-filled week turns into a race against death of
who will make it out alive. The cast includes Mary Jane Wells, Cathy De
Buono, Guinevere Turner and Candis Cayne just to name a few. We talked
to Clark about casting her movies to reflect our evolving diverse
society and her spin on LGBT equality.
When asked what her personal commitment is to LGBT equality Clark
stated, “I don’t necessarily think of myself as an activist in any way.
I’m a filmmaker and a storyteller first but I have quite a number of
dear friends that are LGBT and I mean all of them. So the way I see the
people around me, I see people just like me who love the same sex, love
the opposite sex, love both, have chosen to change their gender because
they feel more truthful about themselves and more whole as another
gender. But they may be gay as another gender or they may be straight as
another gender; I mean it’s all one piece to me. I see everybody as
we’re just living in this world and love all my friends equally and
don’t see a difference in them. So for me, telling stories that fit into
the LGBT community because the characters in the films are in the gay
community is just a matter of saying I don’t see a difference,
truthfully. I think that it is important to tell stories that are unique
to the LGBT community. I also think it’s important to tell stories
where being gay is just part of a whole rather than unique on its own
because in my world my friends are just a part of my whole. The only way
to reach a wider straight audience and to say we are part of this whole
community of human beings is to tell stories that bridge that divide as
opposed to just fall separately into one category or another.”
Jane Clark began her career as an actress including a recurring role on
“Chicago Hope”. She has spoken on panels covering film production,
fundraising, marketing, distribution and most recently addressing the
topic of filmmakers and social change. She is currently writing a book
on making short films from idea through distribution and has devoted
time as a board member and programmer to the Woods Hole Film Festival in
Cape Cod, Massachusetts. "Crazy Bitches" is currently available online
on VOD platforms and will
be released on DVD and Blu Ray on April 1st 2015.
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