Making a film feels like giving a tour down a long internal hallway with thousands of doors. How do you decide which ones to kick open fully and explore what's in the room behind it, and which ones do you keep shut, making sure your tour group is staying focused on what you want to show them next?

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While making our latest film WOMAN IN THE SKY, a short documentary about Magda Salvesen, widow to abstract painter Jon Schueler, we were faced with over a 100 years of collective and individual stories from their lives. So many more were interesting and meaningful than we could conceivably fit in our 16 minute runtime, so what did we do?