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Up Close & Personal With “Novitiate” Writer/Director Maggie Betts

Margaret Qualley as Sister Cathleen in a scene from 'Novitiate'

Documentary filmmaker Maggie Betts has written and directed her first narrative feature, “Novitiate,” a riveting, captivating, look at the life of a young girl who becomes intoxicated with Catholicism and decides to devote her life to God.  Under Betts’ sharp direction, Margaret Qualley gives an outstanding performance as the young postulant in training to become a nun at the Order …