How a Used Bookstore Diary Page Inspired Filmmaker David Ketterer Spencer's Debut Feature 'Souvenir'
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David Ketterer Spencer
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First-time filmmaker David Ketterer Spencer describes how a random find at a New York bookstore — a page from someone's diary written on hotel stationery from Nairobi, Kenya — inspired his debut feature film "Souvenir." The film, which stars Ruby Cruz, Eric Berryman, Mozhan Navabi, Laith Nakli, and Janeane Garofalo, will premiere at the Dances with Films: Los Angeles film festival. The diary page, written first in pencil then in red ink, captured a moment of someone moving out and going through a breakup, which sparked the creative foundation for Spencer's first feature.
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· 3 pulledThe stationery was from a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, and the words were written first in pencil, then in red ink.
It was a page from someone's diary. The writer was moving out and, as it read to me, going through a breakup.
They said something about Philadelphia
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