“I wanted to show all of it. The poverty, the lack of access women had to basic reproductive health care, the isolation and the bureaucracy of just getting a doctor’s appointment,” the filmmaker said
There’s a reason why Ollie, brilliantly played by Tessa Thompson, looks so exhausted in Nia DaCosta’s heartbreaking debut film"Little Woods."
“Honestly, I thought I was never gonna work again after making this film, you just never now,” the first-time feature filmmaker said. “I haven’t read one review yet.” Now, there is a solution to their mounting problems, but it requires that Ollie do what landed her in prison the last time — running prescription drugs like Oxytocin from Canada to the United States. Maybe, this time around, being more reluctant and less cocky, she won’t get caught.
While most writer-directors are urged to write “what they know,” for DaCosta, who was born in the hustle and bustle of New York City and its limitless possibilities, “Little Woods” was an exercise in exploring a world dramatically different than her own. After reading an article about North Dakota and the stark inequality these communities faced, DaCosta felt compelled to tell this story.
“We are used to filmmakers telling us what it means to be black in America and we’re always instructing it, like we’re teaching a lesson. I didn’t want to do that," she explained.
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