INTRODUCING CIFF LOVE LETTERS: Valentines day has come early! We’ve thought a lot this year about how we can build connections between audience members and filmmakers within a virtual space. One of the hardest things about this year for filmmakers, is that they have not been able to forge spontaneous connections with audiences and hear from them directly. If you’ve seen a film you have loved, click HERE to write a love letter to a filmmaker!
This Land, Our Voices will screen virtually from October 2-12, 2020.
An experimental documentary profiling five rural American outsiders. From the high plains of Montana to the Black Belt of Alabama, THIS LAND, OUR VOICES is an impressionistic view of the nation in microcosm and transition. This dreamy journey back to the land, considered precious, beautiful, and sacred to so many, is also fraught with a gruesome colonial and racist history. The multigenerational ranch owners cannot exist without the landless ranch hands, the displaced indigenous communities, the rural disenfranchised poor, and “the forgotten side” of everytown, USA. The characters we meet each thoughtfully consider the meaning of ownership, self-possession, and land stewardship within their own life and the larger legacy that they are shaping for themselves and their communities. Artists Thomspon and Bay sought to tell stories from the land that reflect the diversity and strength of the American population and unite the quiet beauty of observational documentary film with the poetic American landscape, unscored with the ambient struggle for meaning and representation in the lives of America’s unfilmed. (JA)
- Year2020
- Runtime45 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNew England Premiere
- DirectorJulia Thompson, Kevin Bay
- ProducerJulia Thompson, Kevin Bay, Nusrat Durrani
- CinematographerKenny Suleimanagich
- EditorNathan Punwar
- MusicZubin Hensler
INTRODUCING CIFF LOVE LETTERS: Valentines day has come early! We’ve thought a lot this year about how we can build connections between audience members and filmmakers within a virtual space. One of the hardest things about this year for filmmakers, is that they have not been able to forge spontaneous connections with audiences and hear from them directly. If you’ve seen a film you have loved, click HERE to write a love letter to a filmmaker!
This Land, Our Voices will screen virtually from October 2-12, 2020.
An experimental documentary profiling five rural American outsiders. From the high plains of Montana to the Black Belt of Alabama, THIS LAND, OUR VOICES is an impressionistic view of the nation in microcosm and transition. This dreamy journey back to the land, considered precious, beautiful, and sacred to so many, is also fraught with a gruesome colonial and racist history. The multigenerational ranch owners cannot exist without the landless ranch hands, the displaced indigenous communities, the rural disenfranchised poor, and “the forgotten side” of everytown, USA. The characters we meet each thoughtfully consider the meaning of ownership, self-possession, and land stewardship within their own life and the larger legacy that they are shaping for themselves and their communities. Artists Thomspon and Bay sought to tell stories from the land that reflect the diversity and strength of the American population and unite the quiet beauty of observational documentary film with the poetic American landscape, unscored with the ambient struggle for meaning and representation in the lives of America’s unfilmed. (JA)
- Year2020
- Runtime45 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereNew England Premiere
- DirectorJulia Thompson, Kevin Bay
- ProducerJulia Thompson, Kevin Bay, Nusrat Durrani
- CinematographerKenny Suleimanagich
- EditorNathan Punwar
- MusicZubin Hensler