The story of a woman who gets to a stage in her life where she wonders if she's made all the wrong decisions has been in Pip Karmel's heart for over seven years.

As a writer and director of short films, she had already investigated the magical concept of being faced with oneself when she made a short film about a 17 year-old being confronted with her 7 year-old self who wanted to ask why she had taken a certain direction in life.

This dovetailed with her ongoing interest in the dilema many woman face about having a family and/or having a career, and the seeds for ME MYSELF I were planted.

"When I was growing up," says Pip, "I was getting a strong message that it was important to get an education, and a career, to be independent."

"Then somewhere along the line, the message seemed to change, and suddenly family was the most important. I wondered whether there was a whole generation of women who whole-heartedly followed the careers and their dreams and then thought, "Oops, maybe I should be getting married and having kids after all."

"And I just don't think it's easy for women to do both at once and it seems that it's easy for men to have both without seeming like they are torn to choose," Pip said.

Pip wrote a treatment of the film and received initial funding from the NSW Film and Television Office for the first stage development of the screenplay, and over three years the character of Pamela and the storyline of ME MYSELF I emerged.

Once Pip met the producer Fabien Liron, they spend another six months developing the script until the final screenplay was born. "In some ways it's harder to direct a script you have written yourself because it's been so entrenched in your imagination that shooting it becomes a series of heartbreaks. It is impossible to get it the way you've had it in your head for all that time," Pip said.

"But in another way it is easier, because when it's not your own story you don't have all the answers to the questions people ask you because you haven't got it in your bones the way you have your own script."

"ME MYSELF I, is the story of a single career woman in her 30's, wondering if she's made all the wrong decisions in life. The main theme of the film is the futility of regret. It's a waste of energy to obsess over what might have been, because you actually never know the variations and permutations of what might have been. You idealize it in your head, but it would never be like you imagined it to be," she said.