Award-Winning Director, Tamar Halpern, Joins A Son’s Gift
On Hollowhood, “the best independent film magazine in the UK”, true story adaptation based on the experiences of Michele Bell who lost her son to cancer, A Son’s Gift, has signed on award-winning director, Tamar Halpern.
A Son’s Gift
A SON’S GIFT, which has garnered 15 screenwriting awards, is a tale of grief, love, and the strength needed to continue when we out live our own children. Based on the experiences of writer and producer Michele Bell, aka?The Grief Warrior?, who lost her son to cancer when he was 14 years old, A SON’S GIFT is based on her book by the same title.
The story follows a mother’s love, as well as her bereavement, as she’s ultimately empowered to survive on her own terms.
Tamar Halpern
A SON’S GIFT has now found its director in ccomplished female filmmaker?Tamar Halpern, who has written and directed 11 features, including a slate of female-driven thrillers for A&E.
In 2022, Halpern sold a series to HBOMax, and her book about a teen girl in the 1980’s San Fernando Valley, RAD, sold to Diogenes Press.
She recently adapted the novel SOME OF TIM’S STORIES by S.E. Hinton (THE OUTSIDERS, RUMBLE FISH) and is signed up to direct the film in 2024.
Her previous work includes adapting and directing the YA book JEREMY FINK AND THE MEANING OF LIFE, which starred Mira Sorvino, Michael Urie, and Joe Pantoliano.
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