Anne-Sophie Dutoit on filmmaking

Anne-Sophie Dutoit wrote her film “Faded Memories” at 14, and was 16 when she made the film (with a budget under $1 million), about “a teenager with a phobia of being touched by others,” as summarized in a Los Angeles Times article.

“I wanted to see another kind of movie,” Dutoit says. “I started writing a movie I wanted to see and what my friends would want to see. I based my character on people I knew and feelings that I felt. Everybody kind of feels lonely in their life.”

Dutoit graduated early from high school last June and is set to start majoring in psychology at Santa Monica City College in January; she is hoping to finish the psych degree at Stanford University. She decided not to major in cinema, because “psychology would help me to deal with actors.”

Continued in article Anne-Sophie Dutoit: 16 going on 40.

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