Elizabeth Wood is getting a lot of attention on the film festival circuit for her film, White Girl. The coming-of-age story is about a college girl named Leah (Morgan Saylor)who falls hard for a guy (played by Brian ‘Sene’ Marc) she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.
“It’s based on a real story, Wood told Refinery29 about the film. “It’s not my biopic; I feel like this is very much a story from the perspective of a, in this case, Midwestern white girl. But it could be a white girl from anywhere that moved to a big city, and is discovering whiteness and what race really is in America for the first time.
She added, “I think some people see the film and are so kind of shocked by the sex and drugs that they don’t realize this is a film really more about race and gender than sex and drugs.”
Wood has already won the “Directors to Watch” award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and was nominated for the “Prix du jury” at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival and the “Grand Jury Prize” at the Sundance Film Festival.
White Girl opens in theaters on August 26.
