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