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Writing Oregon (2019)

From crashing waves and expansive coastal rain forests to sweeping high deserts, from alpine panoramas to wide, high plateaus and fertile river valleys, Oregon has a variety of climatic zones and ecosystems that have informed and inspired many writers. This documentary explores the lives and works of several poets, novelists, essayists and historians who were influenced by Oregon’s natural environment. Through readings and interviews, writers reflect on literary history, personal and cultural memories, wild spaces, rural homescapes, and the painful recognition of change and loss. Featured authors include Ella Higginson, William Stafford, Barbara Drake, Bill Kittredge, Ingrid Wendt, William Robbins, Kim Stafford, David James Duncan, Elizabeth Woody, Oliver De La Paz, and Abby Phillips Metzger.

Finalist Stockholm City Film Festival April 2021Bearheart: The Gerald Vizenor Chronicles (2020)

Bearheart: The Gerald Vizenor Chronicles explores the literary works of Gerald Vizenor (b.1934), an Anishinaabe author of over forty books, including cultural studies, literary criticism, poetry, short stories, and novels. Focusing on his eerily prophetic first novel, Bearheart (1978), written during the rise of OPEC and subsequent energy crisis, the film features interviews with Vizenor and several scholars, and traces the characters’ travels from the headwaters of the Mississippi River to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, revealing the destructive ramifications of finite fuel and the artificial values driving the lives of many Americans.