‘Independent movies are a strange combination of people with money and people with big egos’

Sean Price Williams and Nick Pinkerton’s collaboration on The Sweet East has been a long time coming. Williams, making his directorial debut with this fun, politically charged picaresque, has been a fulcrum in independent cinema for more than 20 years, working as director of photography for Josh and Benny Safdie, Alex Ross Perry and Abel Ferrara among many others. Pinkerton, getting his first screenwriting credit, has been an influential critic for as long as Williams has been behind a camera.

“I still really didn’t know how movies happen,” Williams adds. “How does the money get to someone to make a movie? Both of us were too busy spending our adult lives just trying to get by and make our rent. And the movies that I work on are not very financially prolific ventures. So I’ve never had the time to take a break and figure out how it’s done. And I still want to know that. We got lucky because we met a guy with money and a dream.

“The script was inspired by certain things in the contemporary body politic and certain, let’s say, types that I knew I wanted to work into it,” says Pinkerton. “But more important was just letting those things be character-led. Talia’s character was not making decisions based on what would be efficacious, so we could have this nice allegorical trip through the modern-day USA. All of the characters had to have a certain autonomy.

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