Event

First Aid For Choking

(Meghan Griffiths, USA, 2003, 99min)
As with our Local Sightings Festival, we see NWFF as an incubator for a regional aesthetic, which is how we ended up getting involved in Meghan Griffiths feature debut First Aid For Choking. Set in the director's hometown of Moscow, Idoaho, but funded through our fiscal sponsorship program, and filled with likeable and familiar characters that don't always make the decisions you'd like them to, the film is a realistic portrait of the entrapments of small towns and family histories. Looking for some direction in her life, Gillian enrolls in beauty school where she bumps into the Jerry Springer past that she thought she was ignoring.

Screens with
Donut Holes
(John Jeffcoat, USA, 2004, 6min)
Keep your eye upon the donut… not the donut hole. An astounding interview and documentary on why on our favorite confectionery treat is missing its middle.