Empty Nesters, Your Movie Has Arrived: Cindy Chupack on Her New Comedy, Otherhood

Last May, when Cindy Chupack spoke at the NextTribe Out Loud event in LA, the audience loved hearing about her experience as a producer and writer in Hollywood, most notably for Sex and the City and Modern Family. She’s won Emmys and Golden Globes. And, oh yeah, she’s written best-selling books. With a resume like that, it’s easy to imagine that the woman behind it is invincible and that she has a gene for preternatural confidence that has allowed her to take the world by storm.

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But the beauty of Cindy Chupack is that she’s as vulnerable and as real as a close friend. When she talked to the audience about directing her first film—which took 10 years to make—she confided that she had been incredibly nervous about directing and because she was afraid she didn’t know enough about camera work, took a workshop for first-time directors. “I think we as women do that to ourselves,” she said. “So often we are focused on the one thing we don’t feel confident about rather than all the things we bring to the table.”