It's hard to appreciate a blatant nepo baby, but something about Maya Hawke's love of Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor makes me sigh, throw up my hands, and say "Fine." In Wildcat, Maya stars as the iconic author of Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and her dad (yeah, Ethan) directs. The film follows O'Connor's deep exploration of the writing craft in the aftermath of her lupus diagnosis. Before this screening, local novelist and Portland State University fiction professor Leni Zumas (Red Clocks) will share a reading and "touch on the impact of O’Connor’s work." by Lindsay Costello