Marking her directorial debut, actress Tanya Wright pulled from personal family tragedy to lay the foundation for her new film Butterfly Rising which she stars alongside McGhee Monteith.
The story was initially written as a script that went on to become a self-published book and, not to long afterwords, adapted into a film. Also, the screenplay is an adaptation of A Turn To Grace, a semi-finalist in the Nicholl’s Screenwriting Competition.
The actress, who plays Deputy Kenya Jones on HBO‘s True Blood, suddenly lost her brother saying…” My brother died suddenly in 2005 and I was…changing—wide and deep. My attraction to Butterflies during this period of my life was strong. A butterfly (with its four stages: egg, caterpillar, cocoon and finally, Butterfly) is the result of a metamorphosis—the complete transformation. While driving back from a trip to the beach with a friend, I was listening to an Aretha Franklin CD.
The story was initially written as a script that went on to become a self-published book and, not to long afterwords, adapted into a film. Also, the screenplay is an adaptation of A Turn To Grace, a semi-finalist in the Nicholl’s Screenwriting Competition.
The actress, who plays Deputy Kenya Jones on HBO‘s True Blood, suddenly lost her brother saying…” My brother died suddenly in 2005 and I was…changing—wide and deep. My attraction to Butterflies during this period of my life was strong. A butterfly (with its four stages: egg, caterpillar, cocoon and finally, Butterfly) is the result of a metamorphosis—the complete transformation. While driving back from a trip to the beach with a friend, I was listening to an Aretha Franklin CD.
- 2/25/2011
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
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