I had a chance to speak with Mariel Hemingway and two-time Academy Award winning director, Barbara Kopple on the red carpet and following the Tribeca Film Festival special screening of Running From Crazy at the Clearview Cinemas Chelsea. The name Hemingway, like Kennedy, triggers immediate emotions.

Anne-Katrin Titze: You said your film was a tale of three sisters. That sounds like Chekhov meets Dickens through the Hemingway family? How much did the literature of the grandfather [Ernest Hemingway] influence the film?

Barbara Kopple: It does. It does because of his creativity, but it also does because of his vulnerability. I think, more than anything else, this is a very intimate portrait of transformation and hope.

Akt: You have the strong masculinity in the grandfather and the three granddaughters - all of them struggling with image issues and more.

Bk: The sisters have their own power. Mariel...