Apr 08, 2010
TRACEY AND TAYLOR ON LX NBC NEW YORK
Confessions of a (Former) Spoiled Teen – Filmmaker Tracey Jackson, who co-wrote the film, Confessions of a Shopaholic, took drastic measures to rein in her bratty teenager daughter, Taylor (video included).
Apr 08, 2010
TRACEY AND TAYLOR ON CTV NEWS
Top Picks : Lucky Ducks : Canada AM: How to tame your spoiled teenager (link to video included).
Apr 07, 2010
TRACEY AND TAYLOR ON FOX NEWS
Taming a Teen Monster – Mom sends spoiled daughter to India to witness poverty (video included).
Apr 07, 2010
TRACEY AND TAYLOR ON THE JOY BEHAR SHOW
What do you do when you realize your daughter is a spoiled brat? Joy talks to one mom who decided to teach her daughter some life lessons by sending her away to one of the poorest cities in the world. (video included).
Apr 06, 2010
TRACEY AND TAYLOR ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA
Curing a Spoiled-Rotten Teen – Tracey Jackson took her shopaholic daughter to India to change her perspective (video included).
Apr 05, 2010
Apr 02, 2010
Shopaholic daughter: How I got un-spoiled
From the NY POST: In yesterday’s Post, Tracey Jackson confessed to raising a spoiled Upper East Side brat — and shipping her off to the slums of India for three weeks to set her straight, while making a documentary, “Lucky Ducks,” about the experience. Now, her daughter, Taylor Templeton, 18, tells her side of the story.
Apr 02, 2010
Shopaholic writer: How I created and tamed a teen monster
From the NY POST: Rich Upper East Side mom Tracey Jackson, the screenwriter of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” blamed herself for raising a teenage monster who charged $1,000 a month on food and discarded $12,000 of designer clothes on her bedroom floor. So Jackson took her daughter, Taylor Templeton, on a three-week trip to the slums of India and filmed a documentary called “Lucky Ducks” on how she tried to set her straight. Here, she tells their story.
Mar 24, 2010
Lucky Ducks and Q+A with Tracey in Marie Claire Magazine
How do you de-brattify a bratty teen? Send her off to work in the slums of India. That’s what Tracey Jackson did when her blonde, blue-eyed, beatific daughter Taylor turned into a shouting, door-slamming 15-year-old. Jackson, a Manhattan-based screenwriter for films such as Confessions of a Shopaholic, tracked her daughter’s India trip in a new documentary, Lucky Ducks, available on DVD this month at amazon.com. Things did not go as planned.
Mar 24, 2010
Author Q&A: Filmmaker Tracey Jackson, “Lucky Ducks”
Tracey Jackson just released the DVD for her documentary: Lucky Ducks. She is is a screenwriter and filmmaker who has written more than 15 feature films and 14 television pilots, including The Guru (the first Hollywood Bollywood crossover feature) and the adaptation for Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopholic. Jackson has a great blog, and has penned a book to be released by Harper Collins next year. Jackson speaks with Write On! about the process of creating Lucky Ducks, the writer’s voice, the benefits of “hiring yourself,” and more.
Nov 09, 2009
Lucky Ducks featured in DNA India News
Article Daily News & Analysis Sunday, November 08, 2009 I turned to Mumbai to understand why rich US kids are so unhappy Filmmaker Tracey Jackson plunked her 15-year-old daughter in Mumbai, to teach in a slum school, for her film Lucky Ducks Uttara Choudhury Over the course of two years, writer-filmmaker Tracey Jackson turned the [...]
Oct 08, 2009
LUCKY DUCKS PREMIERE
WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE LUCKY DUCKS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE MIAAC FILM FESTIVAL. THE MIAAC IS A PRESTIGIOUS SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL WHERE FILMS SUCH AS WATER, THE NAMESAKE AND LAST YEARS’ OSCAR WINNER SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE HAVE PREMIERED. THIS YEAR THEY HAVE CHOSEN LUCKY DUCKS TO BE ONE OF THEIR DOCUMENTARIES. IT [...]
