Marielle Heller Biography

Marielle Stiles Heller is the writer and director of the feature film The Diary of a Teenage Girl and the director of Can You Ever Forgive Me?. The story's protagonist Minnie is a 15-year-old girl living in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976 who begins an affair with her mother's 35-year-old boyfriend Monroe. Heller was taken with Minnie's character a young woman who is confident in her sexuality and noting the lack of films that represent young women in such a way she set to adapting the graphic novel to play. With Gloeckner's blessing worked the script into a screenplay. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24 2015 and later received a limited release in August 2015. The film stars Bel Powley as Minnie. Heller was selected as a 2012 Sundance Screenwriting Fellow and 2012 Sundance Directing Fellow where she had submitted the script for the Sundance writer and director workshop. She then proceeded to direct a teaser for the film using grant money from the writer's workshop. The film received critical acclaim at Sundance and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. The film also won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015. In 2016 the film was named best first feature at the Independent Spirit Awards.

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