The writer/director behind Amazon Studios’ Brittany Runs a Marathon, Paul Downs Colaizzo is a rare bird in this day and age. Bringing his first feature to the Sundance Film Festival this year, Cola…
So, as I was attending NYU, I had him in my mind, this sort of dark but accessible, comedic but dramatic world that he often created. I was interested in exploring that, and I became really interested in other playwrights who crossed over—David Mamet and Aaron Sorkin—as I was coming of age in New York as an artist.
The storytelling is all the same, and I think when you’re working on a film, coming from theater, you’re steeped in character and structure, and drama and craft. So, the real learning curve for me was figuring out how to take the language and the spirit that I understood from theater, and translate that into words that had the same meaning to my producers, and to everybody working on the film.
In crafting the story, because it’s about behavior—and behavior being replaced by different behavior—it all comes through the main character’s relationships to people, places, things and events, and watching the evolution of that relationship. That can feel very uncinematic because it’s very small, it’s intimate, it’s character-oriented.
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