Creative Nonfiction: Ella is a college student, but she's more focused on her pseudo-romance with her dormmate Chris than on the screenplay she's supposed to be finishing for her Creative Writing class. Art and life are indistinguishable as she tries and fails to differentiate her script from her increasingly akward social life.





60 minutes. Mini-dv and 16mm.

Starring Lena Dunham, Audrey Gelman, David Unger, Eleonore Hendricks and Richard Brundage.

Cinematography by Brett Jutkiewicz and Hannah Lesser.

Short End Magazine did a two part interview with Lena about Creative Nonfiction. Part 1 and Part 2.

What People Are Saying:

“The dialogue and performances were charming and awkward in all the appropriate ways. I admired its simplicity and honesty and [Dunham’s] courage to write and direct and edit and star and make it look all so effortless.”
--Jay Stern, filmmaker and co-founder of First Sundays Comedy Film Festival

“Nailed the emotional awfulness and confusion that is college.”
--Mary Bronstein, director of Yeast

“Such great characters...Accurate and funny.”
--Paul Sbrizzi, filmmaker and programmer for Slamdance Film Festival

"Despite it's tenderness the film is not soft-headed, not by any stretch of the imagination."
--Barry Jenkins, director of Medicine for Melancholy

“A very funny, authentic and charming film… [Dunham’s] performance is is unbelievably brave, sympathetic, clear and original.”
--Daniel Schechter, director of Goodbye Baby


Creative Nonfiction will be available on DVD in August 2008. Please check back for details on how-to-buy.