[3] She began directing the comedy within weeks of completing film school, financed by Columbia TriStar HV and produced by IRS Media.

The movie received enthusiastic acclaim in its premiere at Director's Fortnight at Cannes (1992), and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature.

Yet the sort of liberation that ‘My New Gun’ proposes, and embodies, is the product of a true filmmaker's vision.”[5] Hal Hinson of The Washington Post described it as "Stacy Cochran's coolly funny, immaculately modulated first feature.

She reconceived the eight-page story as a dark but comic riff on the tale of Snow White, and won Salter’s approval to move forward with the film.

[9][10] Interscope Pictures signed on to produce the resulting Boys, and attached Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas to play the lead roles.

Drop Back Ten hinges on the writer’s realization that there’s an ugliness beneath the exterior of the actor he comes to know, and the film deals with the ethical gray area inhabited by all of its characters.

[2] The movie was completed after its festival premiere, adding a score by Pat Irwin, a transfer to black-and-white, and “I Want It All” by Depeche Mode as the end credits track.

[2] Cochran's most recent feature, Write When You Get Work, is a love story, and it was completed in 2018, starring Rachel Keller, Finn Wittrock and Emily Mortimer, James Ransone, Jessica Hecht, Scott Cohen, Tess Frazer, Afton Williamson, and Andrew Schulz.

[17] Online publication Hammer to Nail wrote of the premiere: "With 'Write When You Get Work', we have a delectable mix of a romantic comedy and a heist thriller, set against the backdrop of enormous privilege, the whole served up with more than a dollop of astute social criticism.