Women & Film - 2018 ProgramClick on title for more information.

Film representative will attend

Saturday, April 14

Starlight Rosebud Cotton Building

10:00a.m.

SOLD OUT!Missing in Europe

95 min. 2017 USA

10:15

What If It Works?

Festivals & Events Filmmakers Join Us About Us Visit PT

a.m 95 min. 2017 Australia

10:30a.m.

Women Speak Out:Filmmakers Breakthe Rules WithoutApology (A panel conversationwith our guests)

Break

Starlight Rosebud Rose

2:00p.m.

SOLD OUT!Woody's Order!

16 min. 2016 USA

A ThousandMothers

39 min. 2017 USA

2:15p.m.

Mary Janes: TheWomen of Weed

85 min. 2017 USA

2:30p.m.

SOLD OUT!Earth Seasoned…#GapYear

75 min. 2017 USA

Wheeler Theatre, Fort Worden

7:00p.m.

Catching Sight of Thelma & Louise

87 min. 2017 USA

Sunday, April 15

Starlight Rosebud Rose

10:00a.m.

Proof of Loyalty

55 min. 2017 USASounds of Freedom

22 min. 2017 USA

10:15a.m

Mary Janes: TheWomen of Weed

85 min. 2017 USA

10:30a.m.

Lives Well Lived

72 min. 2017 USA

Break

1:00p.m.

My Love Affair withthe Brain SOLD OUT!

57 min. 2016 USA

1:15p.m.

The Departure

87 min. 2017 USA

1:30p.m.

What If It Works?

95 min. 2017 Australia

Missing in EuropeDirected by Tamar HalpernTrailer

American cyber security expert Sara Woods is in Belgrade,Serbia. She arrives under the guise of attending a workconference, but is primarily there to visit her daughter, who isstudying abroad. When Sara’s daughter and a classmate arekidnapped by a human trafficking ring, Sara races to locateher daughter. Filmed on location in Belgrade, the initial USBroadcast was titled My Daughter Is Missing.

This is Tamar Halpern’s sixth feature film. The writer-director,who lives in Los Angeles, has adapted three books and twolife stories for film. She’s won multiple awards for her wide-ranging work, including the Boston Women in Comedy award.Selected as a 2016-17 American Film Showcase Film Expertfor the US Department of Education and the USC School ofCinematic Arts. She has also taught filmmaking andscreenwriting in Amman, Jordan.

95 min. 2017 USA

What If It Works?

Directed by Romi TrowerTrailer

Adrian, an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, has ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder. Grace, a beautiful street artist, hasMultiple Personality Disorder. As new neighbors in an edgysuburb of Melbourne, they find themselves in therapy withthe same psychiatrist and crash into each other oneafternoon. Adrian becomes aware of a threat to Grace lurkingin the form of a fellow street artist, he wants to help her, butto do so he must break free of his OCD. It's a love story thatseems impossible. But what if it works?

Romi Trower is an Australian writer and director whose shortfilms have screened at film festivals all over the world. Herdebut feature, What If It Works? has garnered multiplenominations across the globe, winning 'Best AustralianIndependent Film' at the 2017 Gold Coast Film Festival and'Best Debut Feature' at the Female Eye Film Festival inCanada.

95 min. 2017 Australia

Women Speak Out: Filmmakers Break the Rules WithoutApologyFilmmakers discuss their work, projects they dream of, andfavorite tales from childhood to maturity. These women knowa good story when they hear one, and can unspool a tale likeno one else. And they're "unruly, unrepentant, unbridled andunexpected." You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll empathize….andfree coffee!

Woody's Order!Directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy NewbergerTrailer

Woody was 8 years old when he asked his parents for asibling the only way a bright, nonverbal cerebral palsied boycould - he pointed at Mommy's tummy and Dad's lap. Theresult is Ann Talman, an actress and comedian torn betweenher Broadway career (playing Elizabeth Taylor's daughter in"The Little Foxes") and being her brother's loving caregiver.How do you live your own life and still honor Woody's life?The film capture's her one woman show, performed on stagefor her beloved brother Woody. It is just the two of them.

Kramer, Miller & Newberger are a directing team creatingThe Anthropologist that screened at 50 film festivals andmade it to theaters via Argot Pictures. Evocateur: TheMorton Downey Jr. Movie premiered at Tribeca, hit theatersvia Magnolia, and aired on CNN. Their film The New Recruitsand the Sundance hit The Linguists were both nominatedfor Emmy Awards.

16 min. 2016 USA

A Thousand MothersDirected by Kim Shelton Associate Producer Joanne Feinberg Trailer

Set at an ancient monastery above the majestic IrrawaddyRiver, A Thousand Mothers is an unprecedented look intothe lives of Buddhist nuns in Sagaing, Myanmar. While thechoices available to girls and women in Myanmar are limited,

this film poetically reveals a spiritual option of grace anddignity, and a life dedicated to service.

Kim Shelton has been an award-winning documentaryfilmmaker for over 30 years. Her films have been broadcastnationally and internationally on POV, PBS, NationalGeographic, The Discovery Channel and the BBC. JoanneFeinberg is a producer, story editor, and consultant whobegan her career editing and producing award-winningdocumentaries and commercial projects in New York and SanFrancisco.

39 min. 2017 USA

Mary Janes: The Women of WeedDirected by Windy BormanTrailer

Women are changing the face of today's fastest growingindustry, cannabis. Join filmmaker Windy Borman as sheexplores the movement to end marijuana prohibition, herown relationship to the plant, and the stereotypessurrounding it. Through a series of empowering andeducational interviews, we see a wide diversity of womenindustry leaders. Windy's initial assumptions are transformedas she discovers that cannabis liberation intersects withurgent social justice issues, such as: environmentalsustainability, ending the War on Drugs, the prison-industrialcomplex, and the destructive domination of Big Pharma.

Windy Borman is a multi-award-winning director andproducer as well as the founder of DVA Productions. Shedirected and produced the 10-time award-winning

documentary, The Eyes of Thailand (narrated by AshleyJudd) and produced The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia,which premiered at Sundance 2012 and on HBO. Othercredits include producing and directing The VaginaMonologues. She uses her gift of storytelling to produce filmand digital media that give a voice to the voiceless andpromote peace, justice, and equality.

85 min. 2017 USA

Earth Seasoned…#GapYearDirected by Molly KreuzmanTrailer

Diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, and short-term memory problems, Tori finds her greatest teacher innature. She spends a "gap year" living in the woods withEmma, Thea, Maddee and Hannah on a mountainsidewilderness in Oregon. As the caretakers' stories enfold, thefilm innocently critiques the speed, isolation, and efficiency ofmodern life. Tori discovers that it is through slowing down,committing to meaningful relationships, and living in harmonywith the natural world, that one can uncover the true self,and ultimately find gratitude and love.

First-time director Molly Kreuzman values the importance ofthis journey and its life-changing outcomes. She is deeplyinvested in the future of young women, committing her timeto volunteer organizations, such as The Women's Foundation

of Oregon and ZanaAfrica, that empower at-risk youngwomen and girls.

75 min. 2017 USA

Catching Sight of Thelma & LouiseDirected by Jennifer TownsendTrailer

Women's reflections on their experience might change withexperience and the passage of time. Catching Sight of Thelma& Louise is a documentary that both illuminates the originalfilm with memorable excerpts and also shares intimatestories told by filmgoers who saw Ridley Scott's Thelma &Louise in 1991. Their stories guide us through the film,sharing their original heartfelt responses collected byTownsend immediately after it screened, and how they feelabout those responses today.

Jennifer Townsend was managing careers in law, business,and real estate when she designed her open-formatquestionnaire. She collected viewer responses, and set herThelma & Louise project aside for 20 years before picking itup again, much to our delight.

87 min. 2017 USA

Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers ofHawaiiDirected by Lucy Ostrander and Don SellersTrailer

The story of World War II elite translator Kazuo Yamanereveals a chapter in history unknown to most Americans.Despite prejudice, discrimination, and the massincarcerations of Japanese-Americans on the mainland,Yamane and several hundred of his fellow Nisei volunteeredfrom Hawaii to serve in the Army's 100th Infantry Battalion.Their extraordinary service ultimately changed the course ofAmerican history.

The filmmaking team of Lucy Ostrander and Don Sellers eachhave over 30 years of film experience. Lucy, an award-winningfilmmaker, has focused her documentaries primarily onNorthwest and Asian American history. Don has worked as afilm producer and director, editor, director of photography,and writer, from historical documentaries to docudrama.

55 min. 2017 USA

Sounds of FreedomDirected by Holly ChadwickTrailer

Two veterans with PTSD meet while they’re both employed bythe local island newspaper. Julia is an Iraqi war veteran havingdifficulties adjusting to civilian life. Charlie, who has beenhome from the Vietnam War for over 40 years, still wrestleswith postwar demons. Both are deeply challenged as a darkisland mystery unfolds.

Holly Chadwick, a multi-talented artist, independent webdesigner, and filmmaker, lives on Whidbey Island, WA. Shehas directed shorts, documentaries and most recently, a webseries. Her father was the inspiration for Sounds of Freedom.This is a compilation of the first 5 episodes of Chadwick’saward winning web series.

22 min. 2017 USA

Lives Well LivedDirected by Sky BergmanTrailer

Celebrating the wisdom of men and women, from 75 to 100,who embrace life with grace, strength, dignity and humor.Lives Well Lived encompasses 3,000 years of collectiveexperience, as these forty dynamic elders share their secrets,intimate memories, and insights into creating a meaningfullife.

Sky Bergman is an accomplished, award-winningphotographer. Her fine art work is displayed in permanentcollections throughout the world, including the BrooklynMuseum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the National Library ofFrance. Currently, she is a Professor of Photography andVideo at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA.Lives Well Lived is her directorial debut.

72 min. 2017 USA

My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr.Marian DiamondDirected by Catherine Ryan and Gary WeimbergTrailer

As one of the founders of modern neuroscience, Dr. MarianDiamond challenged and forever changed the paradigm forunderstanding the human brain. Her groundbreaking work isall the more remarkable since it began during an era whenfew women entered science. Part biography, part scientificadventure story, and part inspirational tale, the film followsDr. Diamond over a five-year period. It introduces viewers toher scientific accomplishments and to the warm, funny,thoroughly charming woman herself. She describes her 60-year career researching the human brain as "pure joy."

Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg are five-time EmmyAward nominees and two-time Emmy winners. Professionalpartners since 1980, their documentaries explore universalhuman truths. They take on important subjects even if theyare controversial, and tell stories that include us all.

57 min. 2016 USA

The DepartureDirected by Lana WilsonTrailer

Former punk-turned-Buddhist-priest Ittetsu Nemoto hasmade a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons tolive. As he refuses to draw lines between his patients andhimself, however, the work exacts an increasingly heavy tollon him and his family. The Departure captures Nemoto at acrossroads, when his own self-destructive tendencies forcehim to confront the same question his patients ask: whatmakes life worth living?

Director-producer Lana Wilson is an Emmy-winningfilmmaker based in New York. Her first film, After Tiller,premiered at Sundance in 2013. Theatrically released in 50U.S. cities and nationally broadcast on PBS and won the 2015Emmy Award for Best Documentary. The film has beennominated for an Indie Spirit Award.

87 min. 2017 USA (English Subtitles)

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