Wildflower serves as Matt Smukler's feature film directorial debut, but it's a story he's sat with for a long time. Inspired by his niece and her family, Smukler first set out to shoot a short video essay that would help with her college application process before winding up with a lovingly crafted documentary on the subject. Now, he had directed a narrative fiction version, with a screenplay by Jana Savage, that stars Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka as Bea.

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