Want to watch Of Doll & Murder documentary w/John Waters as narrator? Of course you do.
We are so excited to share Murder in a Nutshell: The Frances Glessner Lee Story on New Hampshire PBS!
Too often, history has overlooked France Glessner Lee and her incredible contributions to criminal justice and forensics. Like her biographer says in the film, "She changed the course of history."
It's been a honor to make two doc films and write a feature script about her.
After our screening of the fine cut at the Smithsonian in 2018, I thought we might be done. Most indie filmmakers don't even dream of having one of their films screen to a standing-room-only crowd at such a prestigious institution. It was such a wonderful experience and at the time I thought, this is enough for me.
But it's hard to leave things unfinished. So we continued. COVID got in the way. We continued some more. And then we interviewed two more people for the film and then it felt as complete as we could get it (without funding), so we reworked the edit and now it's ready for the world!
Interviewing Corinne May Botz, author of The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death was one of the brightest highlights of my journey with Frances Glessner Lee. Botz is brilliant, lovely, talent, fun, funny, genuine, insightful, profound and the best part about her? She love Frances Glessner Lee just is much as I do. We start editing her interview soon, along with another great interview we filmed recently.
For those of you who are wondering, we are still working on Murder in a Nutshell: The Frances Glessner Lee Story. I love how this film is coming together.
If you haven't yet, read this great article about the great Frances Glessner Lee! THere's a mention Murder in a Nutshell: The Frances Glessner Lee Story.
And yes we will have a preview/fine cut screening at The Rocks in October 2024.
Watch preview here!
One the left side of the monitor is the interior of the Glessner House Museum and on the right is a photo of Frances Glessner (R) with her dog and Violetta Scharff (L), Frances' paid companion.
Someone recently asked me if the Glessner House was haunted. We filmed there twice and spent a day researching their files, so I had plenty of opportunity to be scared but nothing scary happened. The energy in the museum seemed light.
However, many people do say it is haunted. What about you? Have you been there? Did you experience anything paranormal?
While filming Of Dolls & Murder we did experience quite a few unexplained events, like camera and car batteries dying when they were fully charged/new. Strange. I've also had my computer battery drain on another filming project at a Polish museum.
