I would love to clear up the confusion. Yes, my filmmaking partners and I made a ROUGH CUT of a documentary film that screened at Renwick Gallery a few years back as part of the Nutshell Studies Exhibit.
Then we tried to raise funds to finish it and no one wanted to fund it. Curious, no? From all the messages I get, people cannot get enough of Frances Glessner Lee, but somehow producers and studios executives don't see it that way. I know, I know, we've been shaking our head about that one for years and years too. So, we are working on re-editing it right now - without funding and that's why the process is so slow. We still have day jobs and other projects that pay our bills, so Murder in a Nutshell: The Frances Glessner Lee Story has been on the back back burner for years - simmering - but also getting better and better. So there's that, right? But 2023 is the year it gets finished. Thanks for your patients and we love you!
Standing room only for our screening at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
From the Murder was her Hobby exhibit at the Renwick. I found this title dismissive, trite and overall cringe. It was far from Frances Glessner Lee's hobby - the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death were her passion and legacy. I would have named it The Little World of Big Time Murder or Murder in a Nutshell (the title of our film).
And yes, more confusion, we are the filmmakers behind Of Dolls & Murder starring John Waters.
