Mayday: Karen Cinorre, Grace Van Patten, Havana Rose Liu and Soko on Their Feminist Sundance Movie

The feminist fever dream Mayday premieres this past week at the Sundance Film Festival and writer-director Karen Cinorre joined stars Grace Van Patten, Havana Rose Liu and Soko for a chat with Collider as buyers circle the acquisition title. Mayday is a bit hard to describe, but Cinorre likens it to “a modern Wizard of Oz about a young woman who’s trying to find her voice.“ She elaborated further, explaining where the inspiration for the film originated. “It came partly out of my obsession, as a girl, with The Wizard of Oz, I think, and always wanting to kind of make a better one. Not that there’s anything wrong with the movie, but I always felt sad that Dorothy came back and they were like, ’oh, you didn’t really go anywhere at all. You should’ve stayed home.’ And I just thought ’no, no, she would be transformed when she came back,’ and I think that was in the back of my mind, so when I set out to create a story about a young woman coming of age, t