"Downtown's Daughter"

This piece is about Lena Dunham, a filmmaker who recently created the movie, Tiny Furniture.  The film is about a girl similar to Dunham, but one who is not quite as sophisticated and sure of herself.  For Tiny Furniture, Dunham borrowed extensively from her life but slightly twisted the details in order to create a sort of self-referencing character study complete with a quirky hilarity that she has cultivated since she was young.  She has always walked a little off the beaten track, going to an arts focused middle/high school and attending Oberlin College, which she gleefully describes as quite leftist.  She is certainly a child of the current youtube/facebook generation and is unabashed at putting herself out there.  Like her character in Tiny Furniture, Dunham lives at her parents' house (two active artists) and has always been quite close to them, often at the expense of being closer to people her own age.  Being observant and more comfortable with adults since an early age has only aided Dunham in her clever character studies and helped mold her unique view of the world.