7 kisses per 77 minutes: A talk with filmmaker Renée George
Filmmaker and composer Renée George. Photo “The Artist,” last year’s Academy Award-winner for Best Picture, inspired and influenced many people, but perhaps no one more than Renée George. Remembered locally for her band Big Lucy (regulars at Toes Tavern, The Hermosa Saloon, and The Pitcher House), and also as a member of the all-girl group Têtes Noires, the Redondo Beach resident traded the musical circuit for the electrical circuit. When she’d first moved West some 20 years ago, George ambitiously set out to be a film director. She had, after all, earned a BFA in Media Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in addition to attending the prestigious graduate film program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. However, a bit of doubt crept in as those 20 years crept by. “After seeing some of the stuff that was coming out of Hollywood,” George says, “the type of films and also the kinds of people around me, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to do it anymore.” It’s now or never “Then I got a phone call to work on this film, ‘The Artist,’” she adds. It was to be a black-and-white silent film set in 1920s Hollywood, with a largely French cast and crew. George…
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