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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
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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
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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
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bizarre situations led them to
create a humorous web series
in 2014 filmed entirely at
Sisters Coffee Company.
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our idea for the series to our
professional cinematogra-
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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. We
plan to begin shooting in late
August/early September in
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