When Dani Alvarado started making her short film, “Lost Beneath The Stars,” she envisioned the film as a drama based on her rough start to find her start in showbiz, with her character’s struggles beginning with a director who makes sexual advances towards her. But after finishing the film — and releasing it in an industry finally holding sexual abusers accountable — she says it has grown in ways she never imagined. In an exclusive interview with TheWrap published Tuesday, Alvarado revealed that the director scene was a near-word-for-word re-enactment of her own encounter with James Toback, who has been...
- 11/22/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Filmmaker Dani Alvarado is one of many women who say a professional meeting with James Toback devolved into the writer-director making humiliating sexual advances. But she may be the first woman to make a film recounting the experience. What happened between her and Toback, as she describes it, became the opening scene of Alvarado’s short film “Lost Beneath The Stars.” And while it premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival last month, Alvarado hasn’t named the harassing director depicted in it until now. (Watch the clip exclusively above.) Numerous attempts to reach Toback for comment were unsuccessful. Alvarado said her encounter with Toback took.
- 11/21/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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