Authors — Taylor Hess
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“What I Once Felt Guilty About Doing… Is Now My Job”: Amanda Trokan on Film Programming
I’m having dinner upstate with my grandparents indulging the Labor Day weekend – food, books, sleep, repeat. Embracing their rigid routines and schedule is a fascinating escape, one that is also mildly horrifying. “Growing old is not for the faint hearted,” my grandfather tells me, and while I can only theoretically understand the sentiment, this sort of elder wisdom is his bread and butter. “Always have fun and fill your life with experiences and adventure, but also remember to plan for the future,” he says. I’m conscious of this temporal pressure even while feeling comparatively young in my grandparents’ house, […]
by Taylor Hess on Nov 11, 2014 -
“Be Patient and Try Not to Hold Grudges”: Marjon Javadi on Acquisitions and Production
I am at Mystic Journey Bookstore in Venice during my very first trip to Los Angeles, feeling appropriately like a Lost Angel. My close friend Marjon has fled New York, not for beachy weekends but for a career opportunity. With our trendy Intelligentsia coffees in tow, we pore over astrological renderings on the back sofas of Mystic Journey, and conversation takes a familiar turn. The Sheryl Sandbergs and Sophia Amorusos of the world may be providing smart macro-level discourse on workplace age, sex, and gender politics, but there’s an equally vital conversation, I am discovering, happening between young women confronting […]
by Taylor Hess on Oct 28, 2014
