the process series

In a sweltering trailer in the San Fernando Valley, Erin (27) is co-producing her first movie—and trying to get the mostly-male crew to take her seriously. How should a young woman lead? Who is the right role model? And is leading (at her age) even possible? Over the course of three insane days on a film set, The Honeywagon uses comedy to explore the moment-to-moment decision-making of a girl-boss in a man’s world.

 

Joy Goodwin is a writer working across multiple forms: screenplays, plays, novels, nonfiction, and criticism. Her screenplays have been honored by the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab, the Austin Film Festival, and The Writers Lab/Athena List. The Sloan Foundation supported her indie feature Mabel (2024), co-written with Nicholas Ma. She has also developed screenplays for the directors Debra Granik and Carl Franklin. Her acclaimed nonfiction book, The Second Mark, was published by Simon & Schuster. Her reporting and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker. Prior to becoming a writer, she directed documentary films and worked as Head of Development at Plum Pictures, where she co-produced six Sundance films in five years. She is currently at work on a novel set in Hollywood. The directs the screenwriting minor at UNC-Chapel Hill.