Sundance Film Festival Breakout Film 'Thelma' Screens at the PBS SoCal Cinema Series

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Josh Margolin's grandma refuses to die. He shared, "She recently turned 103 and has survived the Great Depression, WWII, the death of her husband, a double mastectomy, colon cancer, a valve replacement and an ongoing but allegedly-benign brain tumor. So, when she got duped by phone scammers a few years ago (and nearly sent them thousands of dollars for my "bail"), it pierced my long-standing belief that she was somehow infallible. A belief that brought me some kind of undue comfort throughout my own anxious existence. The inevitability of losing her has become increasingly real to me, and so has her dogged persistence to hold on to her sense of self, as her body and mind stubbornly slow." He shared that he wrote Thelma from a place of reckoning.

The film marks Margolin's directorial debut.

Immediately following the screening, Deadline's chief film critic Pete Hammond, who can also be seen on PBS SoCal's Must See Movies, moderated an in-person Q&A with writer/director Josh Margolin, and co-star Fred Hechinger.

Listen to the full Q&A from the screening below.