ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS:

1. PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Christopher Guest turns the camera on Hollywood in For Your Consideration. The film focuses on the making of an independent movie and its cast who become victims of the dreaded awards buzz.

2. SYNOPSIS
Debut feature director Jay Berman (Christopher Guest), steers cast and crew through a typically tumultuous independent film Home for Purim, an intimate period drama about a Jewish family’s turbulent reunion on the occasion of the dying matriarch’s favorite holiday.

3. ABOUT THE STORY
While Guest’s previous three films incorporated a documentary crew into the plot, this time the filmmakers eschewed the fictional documentary format for a straightforward narrative about the little indie that could and its fragile and frantic mob of actors, crewmembers, media figures, executives, and various hangers-on.

4. ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
For Your Consideration revolves around the making of an Awards-bait low-budget movie, Home for Purim, which has attracted a group of very committed artists.

5. ABOUT THE CHARACTERS
As with previous Guest excursions, the actors were encouraged to develop the looks and accoutrements of their own characters.

6. ABOUT THE INDUSTRY
For Your Consideration’s story and setting provided the actors with particularly fertile ground in which to grow their comic personalities. After all, they’re ultimately satirizing themselves by mocking their own self-seriousness and odd industry rituals.