Interview with Filmmaker Honey Lauren (WIVES OF THE SKIES)

WIVES OF THE SKIES was the winner of BEST FILM at the September 2020 Female Directors Film Festival.

What motivated you to make this film?

I wrote this script several years ago and it was a semi-finalist at the Slamdance Scriptwriting competition… I had an offer to make it back then but I decided to wait. Then about a year and a half ago, I was in Berlin, visiting a producer/ manager I was working with… We were in the process of attaching a director to one of my feature scripts and she really encouraged me to direct instead attaching someone else…. I had directed two shorts and my last one was qualified for an Academy Award. I knew I couldn’t at that time raise the money for that feature but the offer still stood for me to make WIVES OF THE SKIES… I felt motivated to do it and…