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December 30, 2021,
She’s not walking down Main Street though she is talented and beautiful enough to.
Independent Boulevard is where a lot of future big budget super star filmmakers got their start.
Why not Main Street? Because it’s a high school hallway. Not any high school hall way. It is the hall way of the high school where the writer, director and filmmaker went to high school.
Back in the day.
Not that long ago.
Talk about a high school reunion.
There were benefits to doing so, because if you ever went to a public high school, watching Quinn Shepard’s film Blame, will spin you right back there.
Whether your experience was good, bad or in between.
This movie experience was very high school real.
Blame is a 2017 American teen psychological drama film written, co-produced, edited, and directed by Quinn Shephard, who also stars alongside Nadia Alexander, Tate Donovan, and Chris Messina.
Here is the storyline, “A drama teacher’s taboo relationship with an unstable and beautiful student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that parallel events in The Crucible.”
The film is Ms. Shephard’s feature film directorial debut.
It screened at several film festivals, including at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it was nominated for several awards and won the award for Best Actress in a US Narrative Feature (for Alexander’s performance).
We agree. It deserves every award it has coming.
Others agree with us as well. Here are two online reviews:
“The characters are complex. Not only is this just an amazing movie with really engaged actors/actresses, this movie has more meaning to it. Yes, watching this film with a blind eye can drown your mind and turn your head to walk away and pretend like nothing happened but Shephard has put her own emotion and feeling into this which i think is just beautiful, amazing perhaps. This movie (in my opinion) doesn’t have any boring climax or action to it. I cannot even express with the life of me how I feel with this movie it’s kind of relentless to me. I think people would like this movie if they read what Q said about the movie and making it herself, perspective is what it is all about.”
Here is another.
“I was blown away by how much time the movie took to develop the characters. Abagail was breath taking…she was precious, alluring, and at times ferocious! The intimate parts between teacher and student makes you feel vulnerable not disgusted because it truly seemed heartfelt. A really good movie and I thought brilliantly acted by the antagonist as well who easily makes you despise her but suddenly makes you feel empathy.”
Time to turn it over to the professionals.
The stellar team at rogerebert.com analyze, “This is not the kind of film where people pushing 30 wear cheerleaders’ outfits and pretend to be 18. These young actresses feel like real teenagers. The power plays and alliance shifts evoke the destabilized atmosphere of adolescent girls. “Blame” crackles with fires within fires.”
Simply amazing.
Amateur and professional reviewers agree. Blame is firing on all cylinders.
We loved so much about this film, where do we begin.
At the beginning classroom scene.
What we loved about the scene is that we could actually relate to Abigail, the introverted bullied one. Melissa reminded one of our team members of his high school love interest who had a lot of issues but was super sexy. Even Eric, because some of us who have hopefully grown up, were pranksters in high school.
The story is indeed filled with danger.
Around every locker and classroom door.
Quinn Shepard? Please tell us more about yourself? You are going to be a huge filmmaker and director so we want to speak to you now before you are surrounded by an entourage.
Quinn Shephard is best known for her roles as Donna Malone in the holiday comedy Unaccompanied Minors and as Morgan Sanders in the television series Hostages.
Ms. Shephard grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey and the surrounding New York area. She attended Metuchen High School, which was used to film scenes from her movie Blame. Shephard’s big screen debut was in the 2001 French film Harrison’s Flowers at the age of five.
In 2015, she was the recipient of the Rising Star Award at the Garden State Film Festival.[9] In 2018, she appeared in the film The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival; it won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Drama, the festival’s highest honor.
When we looked at her resume, we wondered why she didn’t go to college.
Not judging but just curious. She is clearly college material. We soon found out why.
Quinn developed the script for her first feature film, Blame, for several years.
In 2015, after her financier fell through during the first week of shooting, Shephard partially self-financed Blame using money from her college fund. The film was shot in 19 days, and Shephard produced it with her mother, Laurie Shephard.
We love it. A true risk taker. How many of us would spend our college funds on our very risky dream?
Hey, at least she is not $32,000 in debt, like the average college graduate.
We sense she is extremely happy about that decision now.
Now while we’re not going to stalk her but we will peep inside of her website window. The curtains are open. At reelquinnshephard.com her team shares, “Shephard is set to direct her original upcoming feature NOT OKAY in Summer 2021 for Searchlight, Makeready and Hulu.
NOT OKAY is about a “misguided young woman (Zoey Deutch), desperate for friends and fame, who fakes a trip to Paris to up her social media presence. When a terrifying incident takes place in the real world and becomes part of her imaginary trip, her white lie becomes a moral quandary that offers her all the attention she’s wanted.”
Sounds like more drama. In Quinn’s hand, dangerous fun.
Our shining stars has also developed numerous TV projects, including an original one-hour TV series entitled THE BODY at FX Networks with EP Noah Hawley (“Fargo, “Legion”).
Keep an eye on Quinn Shepard.
Currently she appears to be having great success on Independent Boulevard.
Watch her now, while you can still see her up close.
You can blame yourself later when her blockbusters make millions on Main Street if you don’t.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame_(2017_film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blame-2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_Shephard
http://reelquinnshephard.com/about
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