EXCLUSIVE: Miu Miu Women’s Tales Latest Director Is Mona Fastvold

MIU MIU‘S NEW TALES: Mona Fastvold will be revealed Wednesday as the director of the 31st installment of the Miu Miu Women’s Tales film series.

The new short film, titled “Discipline,” will premiere at Village East by Angelika in New York City on Feb. 12, followed by a conversation with the director.

“I wanted to tell a very personal story connected to one of the Miu Miu pieces I wore in an environment where I felt nervous and anxious, and it gave me an armour for myself,” Fastvold said. “Using life-size puppets and choreographed movements, ‘Discipline’ is about a girl stepping forward into the world, visible at last, still unfinished.”

Hailing from Norway but based in New York, Fastvold cowrote the films “The Childhood of a Leader,” “Vox Lux” and “The Brutalist” with her partner Brady Corbet. The latter earned the two an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Fastvold’s latest film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” also cowritten with Corbet, is a historical musical starring Amanda Seyfried as the titular founder of the Shaker religious movement in the 18th century. Seyfried was nominated at the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards this year for her performance in the movie.

Previously, Fastvold was perhaps best known for directing 2020’s Queer Lion-winning “The World to Come,” starring Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby.

The Miu Miu Women’s Tales series was introduced in 2011. Cinema has long been a passion of the brand’s creative director Miuccia Prada, who has been allowing women directors to speak up and offer their points of view, remaining one of the only consistent commissioning platforms exclusively for female filmmakers.

In 2023, to further amplify and solidify the program, supporting rising talent in the film industry, nominating future directors, and to further ensure visibility for the series across channels and online, the Italian brand established the new Miu Miu Women’s Tales Committee, including Miuccia Prada; Prada Group talent relations special projects director Verde Visconti; award-winning “Selma” director, writer and producer Ava DuVernay, who directed the fifth Women’s Tales; Australian costume, production and set designer Catherine Martin, who won two Academy Awards for “Moulin Rouge!” in 2002 and another two for “The Great Gatsby” in 2014, and American actress, writer and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, a friend of the house who fronted the fall 2004 ad campaign for the brand.