A woman faces the battle of her life when her estranged father’s family tries to evict her and her grandmother from their home in Director Lynn Dow’s drama, Bull Street.
Dow’s film follows LouEster Sadie Gibbs, a small-town personal injury lawyer who was raised by her grandmother after her mother died in childbirth. When an entitled Ivy League lawyer questions their ownership of their home and its surrounding land, the stage is set for a clash of privilege against family.
On November 3, after the DGA membership screening in New York, Dow discussed the making of Bull Street during a Q&A moderated by Director Sarah Pirozek (#Like). She also spoke about the film during a conversation moderated by Director Liz Hinlein (Other People's Children) following the Los Angeles screening on November 10.
During the New York conversation, Dow spoke about how the real city of Summerton, SC became almost a character in the film and the support she received from the town.
“Summerton is where my maternal family was born. My grandmother would take me down South to Summerton and everything that you see in the movie, that's how I saw it growing up. When I went into the town to you say, ‘I'm going to make a movie,’ they were like, ‘what?’ because there was a major article in the in the newspaper that said, ‘Nothing good never happens in Summerton but Hollywood is coming.’ The town just rallied around the movie. They felt really special about Bull Street and something positive was happening. So, everyone — white, black, Republicans, Democrats — they all came together to make this movie and I really could not make it without the town being that extra crew member so to speak.”
Bull Street is Dow’s feature directorial debut. She joined the DGA in 2021.