Episode #1 - Beginning with a summary of the podcast, our first episode features Elizabeth Chatelain who presents her short film Sundogs and Certain Women by Kelly Reichardt. The films both are about women in the plains in the West of the United States. Sundogs takes place in North Dakota and "Certain Women" takes place in Montana. We also talk about the food that we serve during these films for the event.
To find more information about where to watch Sundogs, please follow Elizabeth Chatelain on instagram and Twitter for updates on screenings of Sundogs. If you want to watch Certain Women, you can find where it is available to stream or download here.
Beth’s bio:
A North Dakota native, Elizabeth Chatelain has produced and directed several documentary and narrative shorts including MY SISTER SARAH, winner of the International Documentary Association’s David L. Wolper Award for Best Student Documentary, Student Academy Award Finalist, and D.G.A.’s Best Student Director - Women’s Category Finalist. Her short documentary THE LOST GIRL was winner of the Ruth Landfield Award for Women Filmmakers in 2009. Her work primarily profiles strong women struggling against emotional and social adversity. Her most recent narrative short JENNY AND STEPH premiered at the deadCENTER Film Festival and screened at the Citizen Jane Film Festival, RiverRun, and Austin Film Society’s SXSW ShortCase 2014. She received her B.A. in Film and Media Culture in 2007 from Middlebury College and her M.F.A. in Film and Video Production at the University of Texas at Austin in 2013.
Credits:
Host - Justin Joseph Hall
Location & Production Company - Fourwind Films
Transcript:
Justin Joseph Hall:
Hi, welcome to Feature & a short by Fourwind Films. We are an international creative production company that has a large network of freelance movie makers. I'm the owner, Justin Joseph Hall. This podcast is of an event where filmmakers get together, watch a feature which is a movie over 40 minutes and a short which is under 40 minutes.
We will be doing ten episodes a year featuring a filmmaker, of any sort, it can be a director, writer, producer, camera operator, special effects editor, camera operator, set designer, you name it. The presenter must have worked in one of the two films and cannot have worked in the other film. We watch both of them back to back with the introduction by the presenter before each one.
This first episode features Elizabeth Chatelain, filmmaker from North Dakota, studied in Texas and now lives in Bushwick in Brooklyn in New York. Elizabeth decided to present her short film Sundogs, which was shot in North Dakota, and she paired it with a feature film called Certain Women, which takes place in Montana. We have just the introduction to the short Sundogs, but not Certain Women. So, keeping it short for our first episode.
Elizabeth Chatelain:
This was a short that we shot a year and a half ago, around February in North Dakota. It's set during the oil boom or the bust, rather in North Dakota. So I just kind of really wanted to explore how the oil has affected the state of North Dakota and the people who are there. And so, I decided to concentrate on the characters of, like, a mother and her young daughter and their kind of struggle to find work in the middle of this downturn, because the characters were based on my sister and my niece, uh, after some sort of going back and forth, I made the decision to cast them in the film. They are not actors, but I think they did a really good job, considering. So, that's probably about it. Hope you enjoy it.
Justin Joseph Hall
And the other thing with these events is we serve food that's in the film during the films. And so we try to find something to eat or drink that's found in the film and serve it at the same time. We had macaroni and cheese for Sundogs.
Audience Members:
Was the macaroni and cheese chosen to match the film? That was perfect.
Justin Joseph Hall:
And then we had a grilled cheese sandwich for the diner scene. And certain women, if you want to contact us or find out how to attend our social media handles are at four one films, f-o-u-r-w-i-n-d-f-i-l-m-s at Fourwind Films.
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