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Wednesday, September 30, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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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.
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Nathan Woodworth.
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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.=
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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.
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