Linda Lee

2026 Films, Chicago International Film Festival, Indie Films, Interviews, Screenwriting

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CIFF 2026: A Conversation with “Mouse” filmmakers Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson

by Rebecca Martin

October 24, 2026

When I was in middle school, a girl from our friend group named Lisa died in a car accident. She and her sister were turning into a movie theater when

Chicago, Interviews, Sundance, Sundance 40

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Sundance 40: Kelly O’Sullivan hopes you see empathy in her directorial feature debut, “Ghostlight”

by Rebecca Martin

January 31, 2024

O’Sullivan and Thompson gently fold their story together, finding humor and heart at every turn, leading to the kind of ending that somehow inspired the film’s very first audience at Sundance to