Middle of Nowhere (2012 film)
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| Directed by | Ava DuVernay |
| Produced by | Ava DuVernay |
| Written by | Ava DuVernay |
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Emayatzy Corinealdi Omari Hardwick Edwina Findley Sharon Lawrence Lorraine Toussaint David Oyelowo |
| Music by | Kathryn Bostic |
| Cinematography | Bradford Young |
| Edited by | Spencer Averick |
| Distributed by | AFFRM Participant Media |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $200,000 |
| Box office | $236,806 |
Middle of Nowhere is 2012 independent feature film written and directed by Ava DuVernay and starring Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Omari Hardwick and Lorraine Toussaint. The film was the winner of the Directing Award for U.S. Dramatic Film at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
A Registered Nurse must come to terms with her husband receiving an eight-year prison sentence.
DuVernay explained that when she began to examine what life is like in Compton and "the texture of the lives of women who live there", the subject of incarceration kept coming up. The director then spent months conducting research for the film, including interviewing the wives of felons, before writing a screenplay. DuVernay revealed that she was exploring the same theme of "lost love and how it affects you when it's gone" in Middle of Nowhere as she did in her first feature I Will Follow (2010). The director considered herself fortunate that she could still explore the themes she was interested in during her second film.
Of her viewpoint for the film, DuVernay told Allison Samuels of The Daily Beast, "This is a story I know very well. I'm from Los Angeles and I know countless women who live this kind of life every day, year after year. You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear about them or their struggles in a way that resonates with others. Their stories are so compelling. It's as if they are in their own little world and no one else sees them. I also wanted to talk about the love between two people in a setting that isn't the norm and how they survive."
Middle of Nowhere had a budget of $200,000 and was shot over nineteen days, half of the studio average of forty days, in June 2011. DuVernay told IndieWire's Claire Easton that it was difficult filming over a short period of time and thought that she could have used a couple more days. She continued "It really would just allow us to have more takes, and explore things more. But ultimately, you know, my first film was shot in 15 days, so I gained 4 days. So, one day maybe I'll get out of the teens!"
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