Lynch Party

While David Lynch basks in the glory of “Twin Peaks,” his ABC pilot movie that earned big ratings and critical raves last week, his daughter Jennifer, 22, is preparing to direct her first film, “Boxing Helena,” from her own screenplay. Based on an idea by Philippe Caland, says Jennifer, “It’s a very strange, obsessive love story . . . a film not about sadism, but redemption. I don’t really want to say more than that.”

The project’s “set to go” and is now being cast as the first film from Main Line Pictures, based in Century City. Although she’s never directed a film, she’s a member of the Writers Guild of America, and currently has rewrite assignments at Columbia and Warner Bros.

She wrote “Boxing Helena” at 19.

“David says it’s one of the most incredible things he’s read,” she says of her father, who’s known for his fascination with the perverse. “But he finds the story a little bit sick.”