It Chooses You

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L.A. film director, screenwriter, actor, performance artist, and author, takes to the streets to meet the folks advertising their cheap wares in the local "PennySaver" classifieds shopper. Their stories are humorous, intriguing, and sometimes moving, andultimately, surprisingly helpful in shaping the film she is trying to complete.

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Miranda July is the author of No One Belongs Here More Than You, winner of the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, and The Paris Review. July wrote, directed, and starred in the film Me and You and Everyone We Know, which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera dOr at the Cannes Film Festival. Her second film, The Future, was released this summer.