What was the inspiration for your debut feature Definition Please ?
Day: (Laughing) I won my fourth-grade spelling bee and I went on to regionals and I lost in the first round on the word radish. And that memory always stayed with me. Cut to many years later. I use to be in this comedy sketch writing class. And one of the sketches that I wrote was called Where Are They Now? about spelling bee winners. And if you look up the national spelling winners, they re all doing really incredible things like working on vaccines or they work at NASA or they re winning the World Poker Tour. The button of my sketch was that this one particular spelling bee winner went on to not really do anything at all. And that was the basis of my idea. In late 2013, I did a Sundance screenwriting lab, which kind of creatively inspired me. And early 2017 [I] went to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time and saw my friend premiering a film there and I cornered him at its premiere party and asked him
What was the inspiration for your debut feature Definition Please ?
Day: (Laughing) I won my fourth-grade spelling bee and I went on to regionals and I lost in the first round on the word radish. And that memory always stayed with me. Cut to many years later. I use to be in this comedy sketch writing class. And one of the sketches that I wrote was called Where Are They Now? about spelling bee winners. And if you look up the national spelling winners, they re all doing really incredible things like working on vaccines or they work at NASA or they re winning the World Poker Tour. The button of my sketch was that this one particular spelling bee winner went on to not really do anything at all. And that was the basis of my idea. In late 2013, I did a Sundance screenwriting lab, which kind of creatively inspired me. And early 2017 [I] went to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time and saw my friend premiering a film there and I cornered him at its premiere party and asked him
What was the inspiration for your debut feature Definition Please ?
Day: (Laughing) I won my fourth-grade spelling bee and I went on to regionals and I lost in the first round on the word radish. And that memory always stayed with me. Cut to many years later. I use to be in this comedy sketch writing class. And one of the sketches that I wrote was called Where Are They Now? about spelling bee winners. And if you look up the national spelling winners, they re all doing really incredible things like working on vaccines or they work at NASA or they re winning the World Poker Tour. The button of my sketch was that this one particular spelling bee winner went on to not really do anything at all. And that was the basis of my idea. In late 2013, I did a Sundance screenwriting lab, which kind of creatively inspired me. And early 2017 [I] went to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time and saw my friend premiering a film there and I cornered him at its premiere party and asked him
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