WILDCAT – A BIOGRAPHY BASED ON THE LIFE OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR

A soft-spoken young writer leaves the comforts of Georgia for the wilds of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she changes her first name to a boy’s and confronts the racism and religious prejudices of her upbringing.

DIRECTOR/WRITER: ETHAN HAWKE


CAST:

MAYA HAWKE: FLANNERY O’CONNOR

LAURA LINNEY: FLANNERY’S MOTHER

STEVE ZAHN: SHIFTLET

VINCENT D’ONOFRIO: SHERIFF

ALESSANDRO NIVOLA: PUBLISHER