Kelly O’Sullivan
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“…Just Being Aware of How Much Grief There Is In Our Collective Experience All the Time”: Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan on Ghostlight
Back in January, Sundance 2024 couldn’t have started on a stronger note for those of us who have kicked it off with Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan’s Ghostlight, a gentle tearjerker and a surprisingly tender comedy, marking the duo’s follow-up to their 2019 feature, Saint Frances. A film on the healing properties of a community of artists and a love letter to the joys of scrappy artmaking, Ghostlight set the right tone from the start for the indie festival with a story about grief, familial bonds and the therapeutic beauty of the artistic process. Written by O’Sullivan and co-directed by […]
by Tomris Laffly on Jun 14, 2024 -
Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan
With Saint Frances, the debut independent feature that has been winning prizes all across the festival circuit — including the 2019 SXSW Narrative Feature Audience Award — director Alex Thompson says he and partner Kelly O’Sullivan knew the film they didn’t want to make. Writer, executive producer and star O’Sullivan says that’s “the Hollywood, super-cutesy ’woman learns tons of lessons from a precocious kid’ movie — a movie that feels too neat and saccharine and not very real.” On paper, though, Saint Frances sounds like it could be just such a film. The film’s titular six-year-old (Ramona Edith-Williams) is indeed […]
by Vadim Rizov on Aug 27, 2019
