Christianity Today –March 2012Â
Cornelia Duryée Moore’s story sounds like something from a fairy tale.
“I got hit in the head with my godmother’s magic wand, and she said, ‘Hello, Corrie—this is what you’re going to do for the rest of your life!’ So I said, ‘Yes, please!'”
To be more specific, Moore’s godmother—Madeleine L’Engle, author of science-fiction novels (including A Wrinkle in Time and her popular Time Quartet) and inspirational memoirs—bequeathed to her a remarkable gift: the rights to adapt twelve of her early stories into plays and movies. At the time, Moore was in her third year of seminary; she promptly quit in order to attend film school instead.
And she’s making it happen. Taking Camilla, a play that L’Engle wrote in her twenties and later revised into a novel, Moore has completed a wonderful film called Camilla Dickinson, which features an impressive, accomplished cast. The film is complete, but doesn’t yet have a distributor or release date; Moore and her production company are now pursuing possibilities.
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