Director Christopher Neil on His Indie Film, 'Goats'

By Michelle Kung

Courtesy of the filmmaker
Christopher Neil on the set of ‘Goats’As a former rehearsal adviser, filmmaker Christopher Neil had the advantage of knowing how to work closely with actors as he dove into making his debut feature film “Goats.”

“I’m a big believer in a really exploratory rehearsal process,” says Neil. “Even if it’s just for a few days, it helps the actors really come together.”

For “Goats,” which premieres at the Sundance Film Festival this week, that exploratory immersion included sending his lead actors Graham Phillips and David Duchovny — who respectively play a prep school-bound teenager and his marijuana-smoking goat herder-guardian — into the Tuscon desert with a professional goat herder.

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