Rebecca Shoptaw Films

Rebecca Shoptaw is an American filmmaker and freelance cinematographer.
==Personal life==
Rebecca Shoptaw studied film as an undergraduate at .
==Film==
On March 28, 2020, Rebecca's film Girl, Sweetvoiced, was screened at the .
==Middlemarch: The Series==
Middlemarch: The Series was Rebecca's 70 episode modernized, gender-bent, vlog-style web series, and an adaptation of the novel "" by George Eliot, uploaded every Monday and Wednesday. She originally read the novel for a class.
The series was written, directed, produced, shot and edited as an independent study over the course of the 2016-2017 academic year. The series was uploaded on YouTube from March 15th to December 1st, 2017, and was written about in various news publications such as The New Yorker, Le Monde, and i-D Magazine. It received numerous screenings and awards.
===Premise===
The series takes place at a modern liberal arts college, and follows a group of students at Lowick College in the fictional town of Middlemarch, Connecticut, who are all just beginning to figure out who they are and what they want.
Dot Brooke, based on the novel's heroine, is an idealistic, thoughtful sophomore, played by Mia Fowler, a Yale undergraduate. She is black and bisexual, and forms a relationship with another girl. Dot has yet to figure out her major, and films herself and her friends for a year, to see what she can make of the results. The series largely consists of Dot and her friends speaking directly to the camera, and is filmed in settings intended to suggest a variety of dormitories, as well as in the kitchen of a pizza parlour. With a cast of only ten, some of the functions of the novel's minor characters were subsumed into the major ones.
===Transmedia===
Similar to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the characters have real social media accounts, making the series an example of . There were eighteen in total, on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.
==References==
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