WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY
Narrative Feature | 84 minutes

HIFF 2018

 World Cinema Narrative

Directed by
Madeleine Olnek

Produced by
Anna Margarita Albelo, Casper Andreas, Madeleine Olnek, Max Rifkind-Barron

Written by
Madeleine Olnek

Featuring
Molly Shannon, Amy Seimetz, Susan Ziegler, Brett Gelman, Jackie Monahan

2018 | English | USA

Literary icon Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon) breaks free from her public persona as a famously prudish spinster and claims her status as a vibrant lesbian hero. Balancing raucous humor with tender romance, Shannon establishes Dickinson as a spirited artist who drew inspiration from her passionate, lifelong affair with her secret lover, Susan Dickinson (Susan Ziegler). In the delightfully irreverent WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, writer/director Madeleine Olnek refreshingly upends the false narratives that have historically dominated the poet’s life and work, and examines the way we as a society choose to write and remember our powerful women.