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Screening & Filmmaker Conversation: Anne Rapp’s documentary, “Horton Foote: The Road to Home”
November 1, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm CDT
Writer (“Cookie’s Fortune”, “Dr. T and the Women”) and filmmaker Anne Rapp, along with producers Miguel Alvarez (RTF Assistant Professor) and Jason Wehling, will be joining us for a screening of Rapp’s new documentary feature “Horton Foote: The Road to Home,” which chronicles the creative journey of acclaimed Texas writer Horton Foote through his own eyes and voice at the end of his life. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and two-time Academy Award winner, Foote was known for his subtle yet deeply-layered and profound storytelling—about family, human connections, struggles, resilience and redemption—primarily set in small-town Texas.
Following the screening, RTF Associate Chair Cindy McCreery will moderate a Q&A with the filmmakers.
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Anne Rapp is a writer and ex-script supervisor in the movie industry who worked on more than 60 feature films, beginning with “Tender Mercies” in 1981 and ending with the HBO TV series “Westworld.” She has worked with many acclaimed directors including Jake Kasdan, Billy Bob Thornton, Judd Apatow, Lawrence Kasdan, Sydney Pollack, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemekis, David Mamet, Rob Reiner, Ivan Reitman and Tom Hanks. She began writing short stories which led to a job writing for Robert Altman who directed two of her original screenplays, “Cookie’s Fortune” and “Dr. T and the Women” and a television episode written for the ABC series “Gun” entitled “All the President’s Women.” The screenplay for “Cookie’s Fortune” earned Anne an Independent Spirit Award nomination as well as an Edgar Allen Poe nomination. She has published short stories and essays and has twice served as visiting professor of screenwriting at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.
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