inheritance
Shot over the course of eleven years, Inheritance tells the story of a large, multi-generational family in the Ohio River Valley. The film centers around a young member of the family, Curtis, as he grows up à la Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, in the midst of incredible chaos and the powerful love of his family.
The film was edited by Curtis Whitear, produced and directed by Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing, and executive produced by Morgan Pehme, Dan DiMauro, Sam Cullman and Dave Liu. Inheritance premiered at the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary feature. It is now screening at film festivals around the world.
SELF-PORTRAIT ARTIST
Jim Williams is a reclusive artist with a singular obsession: recreating himself, in all mediums. Now nearing the end of his life, he begins to disassemble his ultimate self-portrait, the home where he has lived alone for the past twenty-five years. As Jim removes his likeness, which has been painted, plastered and carved into every corner of the house, the film explores the delicate boundary between an artist’s work and himself.
You can read more about Jim Williams and his work here and here.
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A MORMON PAGEANT
For nearly a century, hundreds of members of the LDS Church gathered in upstate New York each summer to stage an epic pageant depicting stories from the Book of Mormon. In 2018 the Church announced that it is now discouraging these kinds of productions, and the Hill Cumorah pageant came to an end after its 2019 season.
A Mormon Pageant was produced in collaboration with RadioWest.
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FIRST MONTH
Filmed on New York City’s public bus system during the first month of the COVID-19 lockdown, First Month captures the empty desolation and uncertainty of a functioning but fractured urban ecosystem. In accordance with the belief that the unfamiliar is best explored through the lens of the familiar, the experience of public transit serves as the vehicle to trace and contextualize the city’s dramatic changes. First Month is both a record of transformational events and the collective psychological experience of a society on the precipice of unknown and unavoidable change.
First Month was co-directed with John Crowther.
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NEIGHBORHOOD FILMMAKER
A biographic portrait of Brian Jackson Fetzer, who has been performing and making personal films for more than fifty years in Salt Lake City. Neighborhood Filmmaker follows him as he begins work on his opus, a movie about the city block where he has lived his entire life.
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