Eliza Scanlen On Learning To Dance & Perfecting Her Accent For The Starling Girl

The Starling Girl may be writer and director Laurel Parmet’s feature film debut, but its long gestation period led to a thoughtful and mature piece that has already garnered critical acclaim on the festival circuit and in its current limited theatrical run. The film centers on the life of teenage Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen, Little Women), whose fundamentalist Christian upbringing in Kentucky means her only outlet is worship dance.