With a simple description of the documentary “Chasing Chasing Amy” — which looks at one of director Kevin Smith’s most enduring and critically acclaimed films — it’s hard to imagine where the movie can go. But over the course of its 95-minute run time, the film changes in scope as the story begins to take shape and, unbeknownst to the director at the time, becomes a story about his maturation as a filmmaker, a trans person and a member of the “Chasing Amy” fandom.
I moved to New York on Sept. 1, 2018. And that program gave me the opportunity to really start work on the documentary. And a week after I gave the TED talk, I shot our first two days of “Chasing Chasing Amy.” We shot the first day of interviews at TED HQ. And then, the next day, we went on location to Red Bank, New Jersey, to go to all the locations.
From Left: Kevin Smith, director of"Chasing Amy," and Sav Rodgers, director of the documentary"Chasing Chasing Amy."And then, you know, with brilliant collaborators like Alex Schmider, Carrie Radigan, Lela Meadow-Conner, Matthew Mills, our editor Sharika, our DP Brad, these conversations that I would have with them, they were like, “Dude, you need to be in it. We’re all here for you. We’re all responding to your specific story.
I’m really glad that that moment with Kevin was private. And it’s not on screen. And it doesn’t become this dragged-out thing. And it’s exactly the way that I wanted it. I mean, if I had written this as a screenplay, it would have been too on the nose, right? All of this is just literally what happened, and when we went back to do the edit, we were overwhelmed by the richness of the material that we had in these interviews.
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