Interview with Dawn Valadez, Co-Director of Going on 13

JB: What’s your next project? Do you and Kristy plan to collaborate again?

DV: Kristy and I have many ideas for projects that are both collaborative with each other and projects on our own or with other filmmakers. Kristy has been working on a four-part experimental project with Laura Purdy and I have started to co-produce Corey Ohama’s (our editor) next film. We have a few ideas that we’d like to work on together and we’d like our film company, Vaquera Films, to be home to our collaborative work. I doubt that we’ll do something that has as long of a production schedule again! We have been encouraged to film the girls as they become adults (Going on 21?) and my son has really been pressuring me to do something about boys! Sons of Feminist Moms (Son of a Witch? I’m kinda into WICKED right now!) or something like that! Wse’ll see.