EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet has made it. Her directorial debut feature, the heart-warming, and heart-breaking, Goodbye June , which the Oscar-, Emmy- and BAFTA Award-winning star shot from a screenplay by her son, Joe Anders, is to be released in select theaters for a limited run Friday and streams on Netflix beginning December 24. Getting the film finished has been like “climbing a mountain, but my God, it feels really good when you do claw your way to the top,” she says, exhaling.

It arrives almost on top of James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, in which Winslet returns as Ronal.

Avatar could swallow Goodbye June in one gulp. If Cameron’s picture is the huge industrial-franchise side of Hollywood, then Winslet’s Goodbye June is its intimate, tightly budgeted little Br

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