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22 Wednesday, September 30, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon CHECK OUT Sisters film selected for BendFilm Festival The work of two Sisters filmmakers has been selected for the BendFilm Festival. Nathan and Emily Woodworth bill <The Purse: A Dream in Two Acts,= as a sur- realist/absurdist comedy film. <We pitch it as 8David Lynch meets Monty Python,9= Nathan Woodworth told The Nugget. <We are proud to be an official selection at BendFilm Festival 2020. We are also the winners of the 2019 Maverick Movie Awards for best screenplay, best support- ing actor, and best supporting actress, with a nomination for best picture. However, Maverick Movie Awards is a world-wide competition, not a festival, which makes BendFilm Festival our world premiere. We are extremely excited to be premiering in Central Oregon, where we can share our film for the first time with the community that we love and has given us so much support.= The BendFilm Festival program runs October 8-25, with more than 100 streaming titles and 12 drive-in screen- ings. Some films have a lim- ited window and will only play for a few days during the Festival or they have a cap on the number of tickets that can be sold. For information on passes for viewing films, including The Purse, visit www.bendfilm.org. In the award-winning PHOTO PROVIDED Emily Woodworth. PHOTO PROVIDED Nathan Woodworth. THIS WEEK’S NUGGET INSERTS! Bi-Mart Audubon 20 lb. Songbird Food surreal film, siblings Jackie and Jill clash after Jackie escapes from prison. Worried that he will be pursued by the Jurisdictator, Jackie has disguised himself in Jill9s clothes. Armed with a purse, Jackie is ready to set out into the forest to dig up their bur- ied loot the moment his sister arrives, but Jill isn9t playing ball. Aided by the voice in his head, Jackie must question Jill to uncover the truth. M e a n w h i l e , To m P. Bellbottoms, Esq., shoots a documentary about Selby O9Nolan, the man who invented the purse to be used as a weapon in World War I. The cast consists of Nathan Wo o d w o r t h , Emily Woodworth, Wayne Newcome, Spencer Bordonaro and David Novotny. Emily Woodworth and Nathan Woodworth are the writers, Emily Woodworth directed. The film was edited by Brian Stefano Lee. Artists adapt during pandemic By Jodi Schneider Correspondent Because of the coronavirus pandemic and the effects it has had on the economy, art- ists have had to adapt. Many projects have been canceled or put on hold. Artists are adapting to shutdowns by swapping their physical art spaces for virtual ones. Sisters Art Association (SAA) artists, some who par- ticipated in the 2020 Artist Studio Tour last weekend, have found creative ways to cope amid the COVID-19 crisis. Bedouin and Good Day Café owner Harmony Thomas said, <When I joined the SAA board last fall, I was asked to work on membership. After a couple of months of meet- ings and getting a sense of where I could help, I started to offer my guidance with social media with individual members. I have met with many members, and during COVID-19 we have managed to safely meet, and I have done what I could to continue to assist them.= To assist the artists who felt overwhelmed by the changing times, Thomas helped with the necessary tools that made it easier to run an art business online. Local glass artist and SAA event co-chair Mel Archer noted, <Social media is Harmony9s realm, and I know she has spent many hours tutoring our artists on social media. From setting up accounts to how to use it to promote their work and how- to hashtag the studio tour so our contacts beget more contacts.= Thomas noted, <I value the artists in this community and want to help where I can. Social media platforms are often overwhelming. We would work on what works for them: Facebook pages, Instagram, going over what hashtags mean and do for Instagram. I hope to continue to help advocate and assist.= Thomas has been giving each artist that has needed help an hour or two of listen- ing to gain an understanding of where they are at in their lives as an artist and what their needs are. <The SAA has relied heav- ily on artists promoting them- selves and the tour through their own social media,= said SAA co-founder Helen Schmidling. <Harmony spent dozens of sessions with artists getting them up to speed on Facebook and Instagram 4 artists who had absolutely no social media experience.= $6.99 PHOTO PROVIDED A still from the surrealist short film “The Purse: A Dream In Two Acts.” The 2020 Artist Studio Tour, sponsored by SAA, was nine months in planning. And due to COVID-19, the tour was moved from June to the last weekend in September. Archer said, <Due to COVID-19, we asked for and received the approval of the Deschutes County COVID- 19 Task Force. Our Artist Studio Tour was a very dis- persed event. Each studio was required to have the same safety procedures in place as have now become the stan- dard. The artists enforced social distancing and other procedures.= The SAA provided to each artist: hand sanitizer, dis- posable masks, COVID-19 signage, and sign-in sheets. Masks were required for all visitors. Whether traveling by car, bike, or on foot, peo- ple arrived in small groups throughout the day. The 4th Annual Sisters Arts Association Studio Tour had 36 artists in 26 locations, ranging from wood sculptor J. Chester Armstrong9s stu- dio west of Sisters, to Danae Bennett Miller, bronze sculp- tor located west of Tumalo, to buckeroo artist Len Babb, off Lower Bridge Road west of Terrebonne. There were 33 more artists located in between these points. <This is a group effort and literally would not have been possible with- out the help of Sisters resi- dents,= Nathan Woodworth said. <Specifically, Sisters Elementary School, where we shot a major scene in our film, was extremely kind in supporting us and providing a place for us to shoot. Because we are from Central Oregon and our film was entirely shot in Deschutes County, we will be featured in the Local Focus section of BendFilm.= <The Purse: A Dream in Two Acts= will be eligible for audience awards; anyone who views it can vote for the film. <The Purse= will be avail- able to view for the entire duration of the Festival. Men’s & Women’s Lounge Pants $6.97 each Select Jumbo Bagged Halloween Candy $9.99, 29-53 oz. Ray’s Food Place Pillsbury Best All-Purpose Flour $2.99, 5 lb. bag Fresh-Baked French Bread $2.29, 19 oz. $306,000 Sold! $412,828 Sold! 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