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00:00So Vivian, as the female filmmaker who's wearing all the hats, can you tell everyone a little bit
00:04about Scrap? Sure, Scrap is a intimate family drama about a brother and sister, sort of in
00:11the vein of You Can Count on Me or The Savages with Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
00:17And my character, Beth, is a woman who's recently lost her job and she is struggling to survive as
00:23she's living in her car and sort of hiding that from her older brother, Ben, who's beautifully
00:29played by Anthony Rapp. And he and his wife are going through IVF. So it's about sort of
00:34this brother and sister and the secrets that they're keeping from each other.
00:37And you play somewhat the main character who is like funny and relatable, but also obviously it's
00:43sad in some places. So can you have any advice? Like how did you channel all that and play this
00:49character so well? Oh, that's so nice of you. I'm so glad that you think parts of it are funny.
00:53I think parts of it are very funny. So much of it.
00:56But yeah, I mean, I think that's, to me, that's life. You know, that's kind of how life is.
01:03Making a feature film is not easy. Obviously, you had to go through a lot of challenges. So
01:07what would you say really drove you to start and complete this film?
01:11I mean, my feeling is that like once we started, once we realized we were going to make it,
01:15we were going to make it. It was just a question of how long it was going to take and what was
01:18going to be the best path for us to find financing. Okay, let's take a quick look at
01:23the trailer, a little clip of this trailer of Scrap.
01:37And you got me as soon as the film started with that music and the montage. I just loved it so
01:42much. You successfully made this film. What does success mean to you? It's a big question,
01:48but it's like one of my favorite questions. I mean, I think, I mean, I truly think no one,
01:54I don't, I mean, I think you realize like that there is no such thing. And that, you know,
01:58to me, I would define success as an ability to continue on, you know, being able to just keep
02:04going, you know, realizing you're never going to arrive. There is no there. And just honestly,
02:09being able to like, keep doing the work that you want to do and make, have a creative life,
02:15you know, to me that that is a success. Do you have any favorite moments in the film or on set
02:21that you can recall? I mean, there's like, like, so many of the moments of this film were very
02:26special to me because it was my first feature. So you know, there were so many things it was like
02:32that I was doing and learning for the first time. What advice can you give other people that want to
02:37write, direct and star? It's not easy to direct and star in your own film.
02:42No, it's not. I think, you know, you have to, you have to figure out, I guess, you know,
02:48what you're doing it for. And, you know, what is the, because if you're just doing it, because,
02:51you know, there's going to be some vanity project, although I joked for a long time that Scrap was
02:56sort of my vanity project. You do have to figure out like, what really, what is it really about
03:00for you? What is it about the story? Like, why does the story not go away? Like, why does it,
03:05why is it always coming around in your mind as something that like, you feel you need to write
03:09it down or you need to make it? And if you can, you know, keep focused on that, then I think you
03:15can give yourself the permission to step into all of those roles because you realize you're in
03:18service of something bigger than yourself. And it isn't just a vanity project.