Winged Creatures: a true independent
Rowan Woods wanted to create a true American independent film. He succeeded, and received both the good and the bad that comes with that. Miguel Gonzalez reports.
Why would a renowned Australian direcor sell his house, take his family on a ‘world safari’ for six months and then relocate to Los Angeles to craft an independent American film?
If you ask Rowan Woods, of The Boys and Little Fish fame, the answer is simple. Adventure. Understanding. Learning.
After Little Fish, it was his intention to do a foreign film, so once the family finished an extended trip around the world and finally arrived in LA, the director’s plan was to look at scripts until he found one that felt right. That script came through 21 Grams producer Bob Salerno.
“[Salerno] had a heartfelt connection to the material, having been through 9/11, which is related to the subject matter of the script,” says Woods of the story, which presents a number of diverse characters trying to come to terms with the shooting they’ve just survived.
