Chris Kelly

Love, Chris

4. Sometimes literally just opening a Final Draft doc and titling it helps me! Cuz even though I havent written a thing yet, having that doc exist helps me mentally! Hahahah, its truly nothing but it FEELS like something.

Chips and Salsa. 

Yes but cant say quite yet! Hopefully soon!!!!

Anyway, hi! I hope you are well!!!

Making a movie longer doesnt necessarily make it better. And the producers I worked with were very collaborative. They never “took the movie away from me” and started cutting scenes. We all worked on it together until the very end, and the movie is exactly as long as I think it should be!

And thanks for seeing the movie! That really really means a lot.

Its in select theaters right now!!! And its also on iTunes! You can follow it at our Facebook page to find out wheres it playing!! Thank you!

For my movie, I wanted funny people. My movie is a drama in many ways, and there are a lot of hard, grueling scenes, so I wanted people who were funny and could improvise so that the whole movie wasn’t one long sad slog. 

Molly Shannon is literally the best there is. She is so so so so funny, but if you see “Other People” your jaw will drop. She is insane in this movie. So funny, but so heartbreaking and lovely. Her performance in this movie leaves me sort of speechless. I cannot say enough good things about her. And she’s an incredibly nice person in real life. 

This is such a good question! And my answer is sooo gross and pretentious: Paris. Hahah, PARIS!!!!! Sounds so fancy of me. But its true. Its the most beautiful city and I love it so much. My other favorite places are my grandparents’ lake cabin in northern Minnesota, and my own couch watching “Real Housewives of New York” with my boyfriend and dog. (Whose name is Harry.)

There are so many of them! So many. But I’d say on any movie, the crew is the one that gets the least credit cuz they’re not IN THE SPOTLIGHT like the actors. And on an indie movie, the crew is so crucial. On ANY movie, of course, but on a movie like “Other People” especially. It was amazing what these people could do with so little time and money. From my Locations Manager to the Hair and Makeup Team to the 1st and 2nd ADs, it was stunning to watch so many amazing people pull of this movie in SUCH a short amount of time. I would sometimes get stressed that I couldnt communicate my thanks enough to so many people, but I cannot tell you how grateful I am to all of them. THEY made this movie.

That being said, theres been plenty of things Ive started and then thought “this isnt enough” or “I dont think this will work.” and thats okay too. The important thing is to just follow your gut and listen to yourself.

And Sarah Schneider is my very best friend, and one of the smartest, funniest, best people I know. I am very lucky to get to do this with her!

The Fox and the Hound.

They are all great, but I tend to write for Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant the most. Thats not an insult to the other cast, its just how it shook out. Kate and Aidy are great and a joy to write with. They are great improvisers so its easy and fun to write with them, because they kind kind of perform it on the fly as youre writing it. 

I wanted to make sure she was well-rounded. The movie captures the final year of her life, but I didn’t want her to just be a sad, wilting flower. I didnt want her to just be a Character In A Cancer Movie. I wanted her to be funny, smart, strong, afraid, unafraid, lovely, I wanted her to light up a room. I didnt want her to be defined by cancer, because she never was. I wanted to make her a full person, the way I remembered her.