Suzan-Lori Parks

Set during the Cannes Film Festival, The Making of Plus One packs a punch and pokes more than a little fun at the celebrity obsession fueling the modern day film industry, full of fads, festival red carpets, creatively incongruous commerciality and artistic dispensability in the far from glamorous reality that is independent filmmaking.

A portrait of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks explores why a writer writes and how a play gets made, tracing her path from obscurity to a Pulitzer Prize.