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Article: SPEED OF LIFE - TIMES 3 REBECCA MILLER'S 'PERSONAL VELOCITY' TRILOGY TELLS STORIES OF WOMEN IN CRISIS, CHANGE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- December 7, 2002
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Byline: Robert Denerstein
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity, which won the grand prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, began with a suggestion from another director. Gary Winick, who directed urbane comedy Tadpole, approached Miller about a project called InDigEnt, a series of low-budget digital features.
Miller previously had directed a movie called Angela, a 1995 Sundance hit about a 10-year-old girl who tries to save her disturbed mother. When Winick made his request, Miller wasn't working on a screenplay, so she sent Winick two short stories from a collection she recently had published. With the addition of a third, ...