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Sunday 22 March
6pm
Join us for a conversation with award-winning filmmaker, Emelie Mahdavian followed by the screening of ‘Bitterbrush’.
Emelie Mahdavian is an Emmy, Peabody, and Sundance Award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened at major venues including Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, and Berlin Film Festival, garnering awards recognition, international press, and receiving international theatrical distribution.
In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate the future as they work alone herding cattle. Bitterbrush was a New York Times Critics' Pick and Variety's Tomris Laffly selected it among her "Top 10 films of 2022."
"With 'Bitterbrush,' Mahdavian announces herself as a filmmaker with a keen eye for capturing the contradictions and complexities of outsider women's lives."
Kristen Lopez, IndieWire
"It poses piercing existential questions about purpose and independence, particularly for women choosing work that has long been deemed the exclusive province of men."
Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
Emelie Mahdavian will be joined by Giles Croft, a theatre director and former artistic director of the Nottingham Playhouse. Giles has directed more than 60 productions including Tony's Last Tape, DNA and The Kite Runner. He has also written and performed a one-man show, Channeling Jabez, about the Channel swimmer Jabez Wolfe.
6PM - talk
7:30PM - film screening followed by Q+A
Sunday 22 March
6pm
Join us for a conversation with award-winning filmmaker, Emelie Mahdavian followed by the screening of ‘Bitterbrush’.
Emelie Mahdavian is an Emmy, Peabody, and Sundance Award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened at major venues including Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, and Berlin Film Festival, garnering awards recognition, international press, and receiving international theatrical distribution.
In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate the future as they work alone herding cattle. Bitterbrush was a New York Times Critics' Pick and Variety's Tomris Laffly selected it among her "Top 10 films of 2022."
"With 'Bitterbrush,' Mahdavian announces herself as a filmmaker with a keen eye for capturing the contradictions and complexities of outsider women's lives."
Kristen Lopez, IndieWire
"It poses piercing existential questions about purpose and independence, particularly for women choosing work that has long been deemed the exclusive province of men."
Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
Emelie Mahdavian will be joined by Giles Croft, a theatre director and former artistic director of the Nottingham Playhouse. Giles has directed more than 60 productions including Tony's Last Tape, DNA and The Kite Runner. He has also written and performed a one-man show, Channeling Jabez, about the Channel swimmer Jabez Wolfe.
6PM - talk
7:30PM - film screening followed by Q+A