The truth of it is that there are days, especially recently, where you think this isnt sustainable.

Whats going to happen?

This seems completely nuts, said Gardner.

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Part of me thinks, You know what.

Stay here, be on the frontline, be around here, be near the change, she continued.

We interviewed the great Mike Davis several years ago for a movie about the L.A. riots.

The Desert Child still photo

He was one of the preeminent thinkers about Los Angeles, she revealed.

He said, everything that happens in L.A. happens 20 years before it happens in the United States.

We were talking to Warner Bros and they had this novel by Edward Ashtons novel [Mickey 7].

He changed it a lot but the underbelly, the main heel is there.

Gardner said there were a number of factors behind the delay.

The hope is that that will create a long runway, she said.

The companys second Berlinale titleOlmo, is a low budget movie by Fernando Eimbcke and Vanesa Garnica.

Its the first movie weve fully financed for a very small number, she said.

She said Plan B had been tracking director Eimbcke since his 2004 filmDuck Season.

It wont be ready…

There were cameras all over the cars but also, we had a garage on pit lane.

There were all the garages, and then the movie garage.

They were on the grid walk… the sport was so welcoming.

It was this incredible integration of the movie people and the people racing.

We did it together.