And there's the area where she dropped the sock that's kind of covered in green moss. There was the ridge that the car went over, where she climbs up. There was the hill that went up from the creek. So, first my DP and I went and scouted extensively to find different areas. It was really important to me that there was a visual progression in the woods we were filming. Jen McGowan: So we shot outside of Louisville, KY, between Thanksgiving and Christmas and then we went back for about a week of pick up, about a month later. No Film School: How did you choose the specific stretch of woods you had in the film? No Film School talked to director Jen McGowan, previously the director of the remarkable Jenny & Cal, not long ago about how the film was constructed: the process, the limitations, and the trip toward the final result. The visual atmosphere here is simultaneously lush and raw, from the outset of the film onwards, and it does a considerable amount towards deepening and broadening the story taking place within it. The film also features a standout performance from Jay Paulson as Lowell, a meth cooker who takes Sawyer in when she is injured while running from attackers, and whose soul, purposes, motivations and alliances are all mixed, and mixed-up.
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On another plane, though, it's a personal story about a person who is facing a series of challenges, both tangible and intangible the suspense depends not only on whether or not Sawyer will surpass the challenges but also on how she will surpass them.
The film is, on one level, a small-scale variation on the Deliverance or Southern Comfort stories: Sawyer (played beautifully here by soon-to-be-eminent Hermione Corfield), an ambitious young college student, has car trouble on her way to a job interview and gets entangled with a group of Kentucky backwoods ne'er-do-anywhere-near-wells. If we can say that you find out someone's real character at times of extreme physical or emotional duress, then it would also be fair to say that Rust Creek supplies a test of character for its heroine-without giving any easy answers. Jen McGowan talks the construction, process and limitations on Rust Creek.
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