Update VIII: interiors
Interiors say so much about the times and the people that live in them. Most interiors were cluttered by today’s standards. Given how many things we could incorporate in this scene, we had to be careful to choose the right ones
Update VII: The blank faces
We might not end up using ‘blank faces’ in our film. They’re quite disturbing (though consistent with the nature of our subject matter). But we decided to experiment. Here’s why…
Update V: The only historical figure mentioned by name in the film
He was an author, a medical doctor and the founder of progressive children's orphanages. Who could be?
Update IV: Art Direction - Scene 16
Do you know the reason why bakeries appear so often in Milkweed even though in reality bakeries were closed very quickly in Warsaw?
Update I : Art Direction - Scene 3, 9 & 10
We have gone through several rounds of screenplay adaptation and are now creating b&w illustrations for each scene of the script. Learn more through our updates about our creative process.
A conversation with Milkweed’s author Jerry Spinelli
“I never thought of writing about the Holocaust. I think it was because I didn’t have the credentials. I wasn’t Jewish, I wasn’t there, I didn’t know anybody that was there, and there were already maybe literally a million books that had been written on the Holocaust so, what right had I?”
Meet Misha
He’s a boy without a name, surviving in the shadows of a city about to change forever.