She followed it a year later with the short-story collection The Safety of Objects, which was released as a feature film in 2001.
After leaving the Feature Film Project, Brunton became a hired-gun, working as a line producer, producer, and production manager on a variety of feature films and television series including the features Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Safety of Objects and Foolproof, as well as the television series The Newsroom, Our Hero and Puppets Who Kill.
She also directed The Safety of Objects (2001), which was adapted from the short stories of A. M. Homes and focused on heterosexual love in suburbia.
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Homes's 1999 novel Music for Torching—featuring characters from The Safety of Objects—brought her widest acclaim.