Ursula K Le Guin documentary maker turns to Kickstarter for funds

Film-maker Arwen Curry launches appeal for funds to complete study of revered science fiction and fantasy author

The director of the first documentary to explore the “remarkable life and legacy” of the novelist Ursula K Le Guin has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise the last tranche of money needed for the film to go ahead.

Arwen Curry has filmed “dozens” of hours of interviews with Le Guin over the last seven years, capturing one of science fiction’s most respected authors in the “spectacular real-life places that inspired her fantastical worlds”, the director and producer said. The documentary, which also features interviews with Le Guin’s fans and fellow writers Michael Chabon, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman, will explore the novelist’s life, from her early years into becoming a writer Curry said is “one of the most important feminist voices on the American literary scene”.

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