The new movie Krisha is a family drama about addiction and chaos. In it, a recovering addict named Krisha comes home for Thanksgiving after being away from her family for years.If the family in the film seems tighter than most acting ensembles, it's because they have history: The director and writer, Trey Edward Shults, cast his aunt as the main character, his mother as the family matriarch and himself in the role of Krisha's estranged son.It's a small movie — filmed in Shults' mother's house and made on a tiny budget — but it won two of the biggest awards at last year's South by Southwest Film Festival.Shults tells NPR's Ari Shapiro that he always knew his aunt, actress Krisha Fairchild, would star in his first movie. "She's [an] amazing actress and I just felt like she's never had a great role, and I wanted to write her a great role," he says. "I also had this fantasy that my family would star in my first movie. So it started there."Fairchild also joins the conversation. Interview
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