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WOODWORTHS: Sisters siblings are on a creative roll Continued from page 3 into a major festival, hold an advanced degree in film the- ory, or have been part of the selection committee for a top- 10 film festival. Each film must go through three rounds of blind judging in order to be nominated or win. Woodworth added, <This is a big accomplishment for our little surrealist-comedy film. We weren9t sure if peo- ple would connect with it, let alone love it enough to nomi- nate it for awards. We have been pitching it as 8David Lynch meets Monty Python.9= The initial inspiration for the film came from the Woodworth9s favorite novel, <The Third Policeman,= by Flann O9Brien. <It reads as something that could have been written by Monty Python,= Nathan explained. <The dialogue is in exalted prose, almost poetic, and totally absurd. It also includes detailed footnotes that become their own side story.= T h e W o o d w o r t h s 9 movie was filmed in Sisters Elementary School, their uncle9s apartment in Sisters, and the Deschutes National Forest. In the film, Jackie has just escaped from prison, and as a disguise is dressed in his sibling9s clothes, armed with a purse. He confronts his sister Jill about their hidden loot, which she has buried somewhere in the forests of Oregon. Meanwhile, Tom P. Bellbottoms shoots a docu- mentary about the eccentric inventor of the purse. N a t h a n n o t e d , < T h e other main character in The Purse was played by Wayne Newcome, an actor origi- nally from San Francisco, who I9ve worked with in multiple theatre productions at Volcanic Theatre Pub in Bend. We wrote the part that he plays in The Purse spe- cifically for him. He plays Selby O9Nolan, the man who invented the purse to be used as a militarized weapon by the U.S. forces in World War I. The other young man in the film is our cousin Spencer Bordonaro. His friend David Novotny was an extra 4 obviously the most important role. <The language in the first half of our film is basically prose poetry. In the second half, we suddenly transition to an absurd Monty-Python- inspired mockumentary which has nothing to do with the first half of the film other than that purses are a primary object used in both.= The talented duo also drew Wednesday, February 26, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon inspiration from Sisters musi- cian and songwriter Slater Smith and his band The Weather Machine. Nathan added, <We find Slater to be an outstand- ing poet, and his lyrics have inspired our projects on more than one occasion.= The Woodworths grew up in Sisters, and by 9 years old Nathan was bitten hard by the acting bug after watching Jim Carrey in a movie. <I couldn9t believe the freedom this guy was allowed to have simply because he was in front of a camera,= he said. By 12, Nathan was doing standup comedy any time and place he had the chance. The brother-sister team have been making films for fun after hijacking the family video camera that their dad bought in the 1980s. <In high school, we got a camcorder and started a YouTube channel and would get together with our friends and create sketch-comedy videos emulating Monty Python to the best of our abil- ities,= Woodworth said. Nathan has spent 16 years doing stand-up comedy all along the West Coast and two years training in improv and sketch comedy through The Groundlings Theatre & School and The Second City. Emily, a dancer at Sisters Dance Academy since its beginning, graduated from Pacific University with a degree in creative writing and minor in editing and publishing. <Emily is an amazing human being, so driven and focused. It was pure joy working with her in many dance classes through the early years of the Sisters Dance Academy,= said Lonnie Liddell, Sisters Dance Academy founder. Emily is now writ- ing a novel as her thesis at California Institute of Arts, where she is finishing up her Master of Fine Arts degree in writing on a Lillian Disney scholarship. At one point the PHOTO PROVIDED Woodworths both worked Nathan and Emily Woodworth have won awards for their comedy film, “The at Sisters Coffee Company Purse: A Dream In Two Acts.” and saw great potential for a sketch-comedy series there. tuned for that.= NathanWoodworth.com and Filling orders while dealing To receive updates on EmilyWoodworth.org. with strange customers and <In the Meantime,= visit bizarre situations led them to create a humorous web series in 2014 filmed entirely at Sisters Coffee Company. THE ARENDS & SCOTT REALTY GROUP Discover the Diff erence Nathan said, <We pitched our idea for the series to our professional cinematogra- Phil Arends Chris Scott Principal Broker Broker pher friend, Sam Pyke, and 541-420-9997 541-588-6614 the result was 8The Barista phil.arends@cascadesir.com chris.scott@cascadesir.com Times,9 which is available on Licensed in the State of Oregon Licensed in the State of Oregon YouTube.= The second installment of their series was filmed in 2017 at Palate A Coffee Bar in Bend. He added, <We are releas- ing our second season, so be sure to check it out at YouTube.com/baristatimes.= He also noted, <We are cur- rently preparing for our first feature-length film, called 8In the Meantime.9 It9s about a man named Danny who is building a time machine in his basement with the help of his imaginary friend, Lenny. 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