Saturday, September 23 @ 12:15pm
High Chaparral | Bird Dog | papa Joe | Black Canaries | Cowgirl Up
Drawn & Recorded: Blind Willie | Paintbrush Harvest
Rural life is really a broad description of the non-urban experience, and this evocative group of shorts captures the beauty, hardship and surprising variety of what that experience can mean.
*This program contains mild violence
High Chaparral | Bird Dog | papa Joe | Black Canaries | Cowgirl Up
Drawn & Recorded: Blind Willie | Paintbrush Harvest
Rural life is really a broad description of the non-urban experience, and this evocative group of shorts captures the beauty, hardship and surprising variety of what that experience can mean.
*This program contains mild violence
High Chaparral
Director: David Freid | Short Documentary | 9:02 MIN. The true and unexpected story of an American West theme park in the middle of a Swedish forest that becomes one of the better refugee camps for 500 Syrians looking for safety. |
Bird Dog
Director: Katrina Whalen | Short Narrative | 26 MIN. An imaginative young girl is confronted by fear and wonder after swallowing the heart of a mourning dove while on a hunting trip with her family |
Papa Joe
Director: Ross Williams | Short Documentary | 4 MIN. A short documentary about the life of rancher Joe Hurlimann who's lived on the same farm his entire life. |
Black Canaries
Director: Jesse Lockwood Kreuzer| Short Narrative | 14:30 MIN. Isolated, desperate, and haunted by his coal-stained birthright, Clarence Lockwood continues his daily descent into the accursed Maple mine - even after it has crippled his forefathers and blinded his youngest son. Set in 1907 and based on director Jesse Kreitzer’s own coalmining ancestry, Black Canaries is a powerful meditation on patrimony, loyalty, and love. |
Cowgirl Up
Director: Nathan Willis | Short Documentary | 5:13 MIN. A cowgirl from Mississippi pursues her lifelong dream to be the first African-American woman in the National Finals Rodeo. 
Paintbrush Harvest
Director: Katherine Roselli | Short Documentary | 10 MIN. Renowned Ashland artist Betty LaDuke's recent work honors farmworkers as they plow, prune, weed and harvest our food. This 10- minute documentary, set in Southern Oregon, provides a glimpse into Betty's creative process and the people she so colorfully captures. |
Drawn & Recorded: Blind Willie
Director: Drew Christie | Animation | 4 MIN. |
