Follow novelist Cecil Castellucci in this insightful memoir of making
art, the nature of memory, and being a teenager in 80s New York City.
One thing young Cecil was sure of from the minute she saw Star Wars was
that she was going to be some kind of artisté. Probably a filmmaker.
Possibly Steven Spielberg. Then in 1980 the movie Fame came out. Cecil
wasn't allowed to see that movie. It was rated R and she was ten. But
she did watch the television show and would pretend with her friends
that she was going to that school. Of course they were playing. She was
not. She was destined to be an art school kid.
Chronicling the life of award-winning young adult novelist, and
Eisner-nominated comics scribe Cecil Castellucci (Shade the Changing
Girl, Star Wars: Moving Target), Girl On Film follows a passionate
aspiring artist from the youngest age through adulthood to deeply
examine the arduous pursuit of filmmaking, while exploring the act of
memory and how it recalls and reshapes what we think we truly know about
ourselves.
Praise for Girl on Film
More than a life story, it's an account of how to live an artist's life
even when it looks like your artistic ambitions are grandiose and
impractical. In fact, Castellucci shows, your artistic ambitions are
pretty much guaranteed to be grandiose and impractical. That doesn't
matter. What matters is how you live with your big dreams, what you give
up for them, what you hang onto and what you let go. - NPR
...a story that's simultaneously sweet and provoking: more than a mere
autobiography, Girl on Film demands that we ask ourselves how we narrate
our own life and its meaning. - Boing Boing
