Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Wild Nights with Emily

Madeleine OLNEK 2018 USA Fiction b/w & color 84min English DCP
Emily DICKINSON was often described as a fragile recluse who spent her life holed up in her childhood home, a shrinking violet spinster too timid to publish her poems. Forget all that. In this delightfully funny historical burlesque, Madeleine OLNEK offers a refreshing, much-needed reappraisal of DICKINSON as an ambitious, vivacious rebel whose passionate, lifelong love affair with childhood friend and later sister-in-law Susan GILBERT fueled her creativity.
Balancing irreverent humor with a tender love story, the film challenges the sexist historical record, brilliantly reclaiming the writer’s reputation as a lesbian icon and a feminist trailblazer.

Director

Madeleine OLNEK

New York-based playwright and filmmaker. Her debut feature Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same premiered at Sundance in 2011.

Director-screenwriter: Madeleine Olnek
Producers: Casper Andreas, Max Rifkind-Baron, Anna Margarita Albelo, Madeleine Olnek
Executive producers: Jennifer Kriz, David Moscow, Todd Remis
Director of photography: Anna Stypko
Production designers: Allison Fry, Eimi Imanishi
Costume designers: Linda Gui, Christine Casaus, Courtney newman
Editors: Lee Eaton, Anthony Clemente
Composers: Karl Frid, Par Frid
Casting director: Carol Rosenthal

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