What attracted everyone to work on Stephanie Daley—
including leads Tilda Swinton and Amber Tamblyn — is what
cinematographer David Rush Morrison calls "an amazing script."
Director/writer Hilary Brougher, who made Sticky Fingers of
Time in 1997, developed her script at the Sundance Writers
Lab and, later on, at the Sundance Directors Lab. The story of a
pregnant forensic psychologist who explores the truth behind the case
of a 16-year-old accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her
infant came out of Brougher’s desire to write a very character-driven
script. "I was interested in the idea of how you get a very, very
internal conflict onto the screen without just being expositional," she
says. "How you create the tension of people who don’t believe what’s
real— and what they have to do to protect that belief or mis-belief."
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