Robin Swicord, screenwriter-director

September 14, 2007 After penning scripts for 1994's "Little Women," 1998's "Practical Magic" and 2005's "Memoirs of a Geisha," Swicord tries her hand at directing her own script with Sony Pictures Classics' "Jane Austen Book Club," based on Karen Joy Fowler's novel, which explores Austenian themes in contemporary Sacramento. Robin Swicord:  I was working on a project at Sony already, an original screenplay called "The Jane Prize," about a family of dysfunctional Austen scholars. There are about 37 different locations in the film and only 30 days to shoot it in.

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