A couple weeks ago we received a call from Mandate Pictures in Beverly Hills to do a couple days of scouting for Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It! The film is a coming of age story centered around contemporary roller derby (whose popularity is on the rise). The story is based on the book Derby Girl by Shauna Cross and takes place in Austin, Texas.
So I spent two days driving over 300 miles looking for places that could pass for Texas; B-B-Q joint, 50's style ranch homes and so on. I shot in a neat little town called Vinton about 45 minutes from Cedar Falls and thought it looked like a small Texas town.
But I found out that Mandate has decided to shoot West Texas, New Mexico, and Michigan. But nonetheless it was nice to rub shoulders and work for the group that produced last year's surprise hit Juno. Which for the record won screenwriter Diablo Cody an Oscar. Cody is a graduate of the University of Iowa.
And that's not the only Juno-Iowa connection. Juno start Ellen Page is over in the Des Moines area currently shooting Peacock which is also being produced by Mandate.
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