Who is playing the girl?

Sorry bout that. I have just talked to some of the crew about film, nothing about this film in general. But Kravitz' daughter is very talented. I do have the picture on my cell phone, but it is very far away. I could upload it if you want.

whats with everyone calling her the girl? is her character not named in the script?

*You're not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account here*

here's an interesting blurb about the young director/writer:

"Shana Feste

Of her decision to enroll in the producing program at AFI, Shana Feste, who is days away from production of her first feature, The Greatest, laughs, “You have to do things to figure out that they are wrong for you, and producing was so wrong for my personality.” She produced more than 20 short student films there, many of which she also wrote. “I‘d be in the background sweeping the floors, cleaning the toilets and watching the directors direct my material, work with actors, and do all the things that I wanted to do. [At the time] I never really thought I could be a director. I didn‘t have many female directors who were role models — I could barely count female directors on one hand. But I realized at AFI that [the directors] and I all knew the exact same things.”

So, Feste, who acted as part of the Young Professionals Actors program from the age of 11 to 18, set her sights on writing and directing, a journey that was aided by a couple of significant postgraduation jobs. She worked as a researcher for writer-director Robert Towne on a World War II project and also as an executive assistant to CAA‘s Richard Lovett, who read her script Love Easy and championed it at the agency. But Love Easy, a film inspired by her roguish father, is not the film she‘s about to make. “I spent two years trying to get it of the ground,” she says. “It‘s been fully cast and ready to go, and each time it would fall apart. It was devastating. I wrote The Greatest in order to have something else out there.”

The Greatest tells the story of a teenage girl who inserts herself in the lives of a grief-stricken family recovering from the death of their son. Being produced by Lynette Howell and Beau St. Claire, financed by Barbarian Films and starring Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon, The Greatest is one of a number of recent and upcoming films dealing with death and loss. But Feste, who cites Kramer vs. Kramer and Hal Ashby‘s films as her favorites, says that it‘s important for her that the film not be immersed in sadness. “I recently went to a meeting of the Compassionate Friends Network, where you have to have lost a child to get in,” Feste says. “The thing you notice is that there is a lot of laughter in the room. When you are grieving, you are not crying for 100 percent of your day. And with The Greatest, I didn‘t want to show a marriage falling apart — I wanted to show a family that comes out of this alive and together. It‘s all about finding the hope and the laughter in this journey.” — Scott Macaulay

http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/summer2008/25faces_2.php

regarding michael shannon, the bit i'm posting below states that he is playing bennett's friend. but since bennett is the high school son who dies in a car crash & sets the story wheels in motion, i'm not so sure how accurate this is. michael shannon is about 34 yrs old & has the kind of rugged face that certainly doesnt lend itself well to playing younger, so its doubtful that he's playing a high school friend of bennett's. we will have to see about that.

curiously, shannon & brosnan have appeared in a movie together before this, Detonator2. b movie stuff from the title of it. but it seems that people are sitting up & taking notice of shannon, including brosnan & his dreamtime production co. and shannon has an apparently weigthy part in another of my much anticipated movies, Revolutionary Road, with kate winslet & leo dicaprio, & directed by sam mendes.

"Following his roles in Bug, Shotgun Stories and the upcoming Revolutionary Roads, Michael Shannon's leading man potential is escalating with no signs of stopping soon. According to THR, Shannon will be joining the cast of the indie drama The Greatest, directed by Shana Feste. Feste was recently placed among Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." This will be her first feature...and probably not her last.

Shannon will be joining Carey Mulligan, who will be starring as a troubled teenager who throws herself into a family trying to get over loss of their teenage son Bennett, which Aaron Johnson has been cast as. Shannon will be playing Bennett's friend. Mulligan is relatively new to the bigscreen, but has big plans lined up. She with be featured in the Nick Hornby-based film An Education, Jim Sheridan's war drama Brothers which stars Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey Maquire, and Michael Mann's Public Enemies, featuring a much-anticipated joining of Christian Bale and Johnny Depp (lucky girl). Also cast in 'Greatest' are Zoe Kravitz and Johnny Simmons, who will be appearing in the Diablo Cody penned Jennifer's Body.

Carrying out the adult leads will be Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon. Brosnon will be serving as exec producer as well, with his Irish DreamTime Productions shingle and Silverwood FIlms are co-producing. The Greatest is currently lensing and set for release next year."

http://www.ioncinema.com/news.php?nid=3207