“Unveiling the Secrets of Success: How Shari Hamrick Grewal Transformed from Film Crew Member to Visionary Producer/Director”
Ashley
So, let’s dig into your feature film Winter’s Garden. Maybe to start out, and this is a movie you directed and produced, and maybe to start out you can just give us a quick pitch or log line. What is this film all about?
Shari Hamrick Grewal
Well, this film is just about, you know, it’s very stereotypical Christmas in a way, except for I tend to lean into things that have a little bit more story to them. And so just, you know, the girl works at an ad agency goes home to the farm. And then, you know, there’s a little bit of a formula there, all the tropes and things that you have to play with in that in that lane. This one had a World War Two backstory. And I do a lot of things with my nonprofit, Vetflix, under my 501c3 that I have. And we try to either make sure we’re hiring veterans, or that we have supporting like a veteran has a story to tell, or that there’s some veteran element in the film. So, this one, what attracted me to this one is that it is about a young girl who ends up meeting a woman, an elderly woman who served in World War Two, who passed in the passing away. And so, she tries to do the right thing and getting the woman back to where she wanted to be laid to rest. And in doing that ends up discovering her entire story about, you know, how was she, she was a part of a, you know, a lot of this didn’t end up in the final movie, but it will on the website where the elderly woman actually served in the Red Cross, and she was in the UK during the war. And so, there’s little sprinkles of that while you’re still having this romance, you know, where she goes, and she meets the guy in the UK. And through that solving of that mystery, fall in love, you know, at the end of the movie, they’re going to, you know, kiss and do all that wonderful stuff. But it has just a little bit more meat potatoes. And that’s kind of what attracted me to it. But the screenwriter, who I actually produced other films with, sent me this one, and said, hey, what do you think about doing this? And I just fell in love with it. And I said, we’re making it.
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