I wrote The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop during my first semester at graduate school and, from the moment I completed the first draft, I knew that this would be the first feature film I would tackle as a director. While creating Cecily's world, I pulled from my own life experiences to develop the characters and basic plot, but then something truly magical happened: my characters came to life. They took over and told the story for me. The Extraordinary World of Ceci