Director Nicole Riegel opens up about the full circle journey that took her home: 'I’m really proud of the fact that this is the first film in recent memory to come out of Appalachia by someone from that community.'
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, has a college acceptance letter waiting in the mailbox and an eviction notice hanging on her front door. There’s no running water in the house, but Ruth’s room is an oasis of books stolen from the school library and maps of places far from her Appalachian hometown.
“I mean, the character’s very much inspired by me,” Riegel says, laughing, when asked about Ruth’s instinct to shield herself from the world. “It’s hard for me to talk about her and not talk about my own experience because it’s so interwoven.” Like Ruth, Riegel felt like an outsider in her Appalachian town, taught to tamp down parts of herself that stood out. “I think a lot of young women in that part of the country feel that way,” she says.
“It’s a region that attracts a lot of bad media, a lot of negative press,” she explains. “We don’t feel accurately depicted, especially Appalachian women. People mostly spotlight the men in that region and leave us out of the story. I’m really proud of the fact that this is the first film in recent memory to come out of Appalachia by someone from that community.”
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