Event

My Mother Was Here

Sat Sep 21: 3.00pm

US
Festival - Local Sightings Film Festival 2019: Feature Films

About
(Rustin Thompson, Seattle, WA, 76 min)

Filmmaker in attendance!

Documentary filmmaker Rustin Thompson documents the claustrophobic day-to-day life of Donna, an 84-year-old woman who lives alone in rural Washington State. Situated in a mobile home and house that are cluttered with junk, Donna exists on a school bus drivers pension, social security, and Medicare. Shes never had a credit card, never voted, and never flown on an airplane. Quietly stubborn, she is estranged from all surviving members of her family, except for oneher son, the filmmakerwho rarely visits her. When her health begins to fail, she calls on him.

Thompson is also the author of Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking, out on Oxford University Press.