Cannes Film Festival: Riley Keough Talks Directing, Nepotism and Crying During ‘Elvis’

Any nepotism didn’t help on financing “War Pony,” codirected with Gina Gammell, Keough said. The first-time helmer noted that it’s an industrywide problem for the money men to take chances on women directors. That results in slim pickings for festival producers, such as this year’sselection, which has just three female filmmakers in the main competition and has been widely criticized for not meeting its gender-parity target.

Among those luminaries are Andrea Arnold, who directed “American Honey.” It was on the set of that 2016 film where the seeds of “War Pony” were sewn. There, Keough met Bill Reddy and Franklin Sioux Bob as extras and became fast friends. They went on to cowrite, along with Gammell and Keough, the story about two boys growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

“It’s a very emotional experience to watch,” she said, “When it’s your family, you know, it’s an interesting position to be in where there’s kind of free rein over who gets to tell your story. Like, we don’t really have control over [it].” “You’re protective over your story of your family,” she said. “The first five minutes for me, I could just feel how much work Baz and Austin [Butler] had put into trying to get it right. And that made me emotional immediately. So I just started crying five minutes in, and I don’t think I stopped. I felt so honored that they worked so hard to really get his essence and I really feel like Austin captured that so beautifully.

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