In the early days, Hitman had to get creative with smaller budgets and limited resources - something that helped her to find her voice. Beach Rats was released in 2017, and her first film, It Felt Like Love was released in 2013.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always is the third feature film from Hittman, who got her start directing theater. And these are the people who are holding back progress,” said Hittman.
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Will you watch a movie about Black Lives Matter, probably not. “I wonder how many Academy voters refused to watch it for political reasons, because it doesn’t align with their ideologies? It’s sad to me because if you won’t watch a movie about abortion, then will you watch a movie about homosexuality? Probably not. While critical response for Never Rarely Sometimes Always has been positive (it received seven Independent Spirit Awards nominations and a 99 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes), the focus on abortion has turned off some audiences - including Academy Award voter Keith Merrill, who emailed Hittman and declared that he wouldn’t be watching her movie citing, “Zero interest in watching a woman cross state lines so someone can murder her unborn child.” Not only did Hittman get permission to film inside of a real Planned Parenthood, but she also cast an actual social worker for the role. “I went through this really long process of gaining trust from Planned Parenthood and being allowed to have access to the facility, to tour it, to talk to social workers, to meet with doctors, to meet with nurses and to just walk though the experience from the point of view of the character,” Hittman explains.įlanigan’s performance in the film is raw and vulnerable, especially during the intake scene where Autumn answers a questionnaire (which also inspired the film’s name). Part of reclaiming this narrative was ensuring that the experience of women was portrayed as authentically as possible. Sidney Flanigan plays Autumn in 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always.' (Photo: Focus Features) I think there are a lot of films that exist in the world that explore how hard it is to get an illegal abortion in 1970, and I wanted to show audiences that actually it’s really hard to get a legal abortion in 2021.” “I really wanted to reclaim that narrative. “The films that I had seen about abortion, and dealt with the representation of abortion on screen, had all been told from male points of views and male lenses,” said Hittman. The narrative covers the topic from a perspective Hittman says is rarely explored on the screen. The movie, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, follows 17 year-old Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) who discovers she is pregnant, and travels from Pennsylvania to New York City to get an abortion. I didn't expect that it would be an easy movie to find an audience,” the filmmaker told Yahoo Entertainment (watch above). I didn’t expect it would be an easy movie to finance. I didn't expect it would be an easy movie to make.
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Game Changers is a Yahoo Entertainment video interview series highlighting the diverse creators disrupting Hollywood - and the pioneers who paved the way.Įliza Hittman knew that it would be an uphill climb to make her latest film.
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