When I began working on a research project about Thelma & Louise in 1991, I didn’t know I was researching two films. All I knew was that I had been ‘blown away’ by the movie. It transported me to some kind of previously unknown psychological dimension, removed from the day-to-day world of existence that was...Read More

The documentary Catching Sight of Thelma & Louise had its origins back in 1991, when director Jennifer Townsend saw the then-newly-released Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, a complete badass who wrote the script in longhand while working a production assistant job, won an Oscar for it, and reportedly responded...Read More

Callie Khouri and I were called by the spirit of Thelma & Louise For 25 years the spirit of “Thelma & Louise” haunted me. I was mesmerized by the film when it came out in 1991. So much so that I was compelled to gather reactions from viewers around the country. In pre-internet times, this...Read More

Without Google, tracking people down after 25 years would have been difficult or nearly impossible. In this video, Jennifer Townsend describes her pain-staking efforts, using Google to search and track down the only waitress who replied to her questionnaire. How hard was it to find people without Google? Twenty-five years ago people’s lives were largely...Read More