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"   Lily Greenfield-Sanders turning her camera on herself.  &amp;quot;I became interested in Munchausen&amp;#039;s Syndrome while I was in college at Brown, but in the end, I really just used the disorder as a starting point in my writing,&amp;quot; says Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, writer and director of the short film Adelaide which is having its last series of screenings starting this Friday at New York&amp;#039;s Quad Cinema. &amp;quot;Instead of trying to fit my main character Adelaide into one particular pathology, I concentrated more on creating someone who, very generally, is constantly in need of attention and then set out to write another character who could love her for that,&amp;quot; says Greenfield-Sanders (whose preternatural predisposition to visual artistic achievement can be traced to her photographer father Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and artist sister Isca). The sparkling short tells the story of a girl (Anna Margaret Hollyman) who concocts her own medical emergencies and finds love with an aspiring paramedic (Hank Harris). &amp;quot;Adelaide wants what we all want, she&amp;#039;s just gone about it in a way that stretches normal behavior to the nth degree. She&amp;#039;s not based on one person in particular, but I like to think that even though she&amp;#039;s a bit strange, she&amp;#039;s relatable and likeable,&amp;quot; says Greenfield-Sanders of her lead character. Greenfield-Sanders&amp;#039; favorite part of the film (produced by Lily&amp;#039;s friend from Andover Rowan Riley) is the end because &amp;quot;I like when characters get what they need, especially if you&amp;#039;re surprised by the nature of what that is.&amp;quot;  The short was such an overwhelming success (2009 Gen Art Best Short Film winner, SAG/INDIE Audience Award, New Orleans Film Festival&amp;#039;s Best Narrative Short, and the list goes on...) that Greenfield-Sanders has decided to expand it into a feature length film. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m almost finished writing the feature version,&amp;quot; says the profusely productive Greenfield-Sanders. &amp;quot;The characters are very different from the short, but the feeling and tone are similar. In the short, I concentrated on the love story between the two main characters. The challenge of the feature was definitely to delve more deeply into Adelaide&amp;#039;s family and psychology and figure out why she does what she does. But for both projects the biggest challenge (and the most fun) came from finding new ways to make hurting yourself funny. It&amp;#039;s a very fine line.&amp;quot; What cinematic tour-de-force can we expect next from this rapidly rising young talent? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve just completed the treatment on a new feature length screenplay, Bypass, which I plan to write in the next six months.&amp;quot; As for when we can expect the release of a full-length Adelaide, she says, &amp;quot;I will start sending the script around sometime in the New Year so we&amp;#039;ll see what the future holds.&amp;quot; She confesses, &amp;quot;Adelaide`s won ten top prizes on the festival circuit so at this point I&amp;#039;m cautiously optimistic.&amp;quot; In the meantime, you can catch its last batch of screenings starting this Friday at New York&amp;#039;s Quad Cinema before Punching the Clown (reportedly Sarah Silverman&amp;#039;s favorite film about comedy). Click here for tickets! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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