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While she was not the producers’ first choice, Taylor-Wood says she waged a “stalking” campaign to get the job, writing countless e-mails and offering ideas for the picture. Nowhere Boy covers Lennon’s turbulent upbringing in postwar Liverpool and ends on the eve of the Beatles’ departure for Hamburg’s red-light district, where they honed their performing skills before breaking through in Europe and later the U.S. Taylor-Wood, who won the Most Promising Artist award at the 1997 Venice Biennale and was nominated for the Turner Prize the following year, follows other notable artists who have moved into movie directing. Steve McQueen directed last year’s acclaimed IRA prison drama Hunger, and Julian Schnabel received an Oscar nomination for his 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Nowhere Boy premieres at the Times BFI London Film Festival in October.

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