Karen Moncrieff’s Heartbreaker

Director Karen Moncrieff joyously celebrated her daughter’s first birthday at last monh’s premiere of “The Dead Girl, her somber feature based on her own experiences and observatons while on jury duty during a murder trial. As David Olsen reports in his Los Angeles Times interview with Moncrieff, the director wisely took her baby home before the screening started– the film she birthed simply isn’t kid proof. more