Joy Goodwin
About
Joy Goodwin began her career in sports television, directing documentaries about Olympic athletes. As a journalist, she has covered theater for The New York Times and The New Yorker, and published an award-winning nonfiction book with Simon & Schuster. Transitioning to film, Joy became a development exec at Plum Pictures in New York, where she co-produced a half-dozen independent films (distributed by Fox Searchlight, TWC, Lionsgate, IFC, and Magnolia) before dedicating herself to screenwriting.
Mabel
No one at her new school gets Callie, an awkward kid whose one friend, Mabel, is a potted plant -- except Ms. Garrett, the charismatic science teacher who introduces her to the controversial world of “plant intelligence.” Desperate to impress her teacher, Callie starts building a secret greenhouse laboratory in her backyard, but Callie’s obsession threatens her first real connection with another kid.