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Todd,
Jedd,
Lori and I talk about their new film
God Knows Where I Am. We touch on mental health issues, the “other”, the poetic edge to filmmaking and the “ever porous cracks” in our social safety nets.
Watch the
Trailer here. https://vimeo.com/155436707
GOD KNOWS WHERE
I AM wins special jury prize
for an international feature documentary at prestigious
Hot Docs
International Documentary Film Festival.
Synopsis
The body of a homeless woman is found in an abandoned
New Hampshire farmhouse. Beside the body, lies a diary that documents a journey of starvation and
the loss of sanity, but told with poignance, beauty, humour, and spirituality. For nearly four months,
Linda Bishop, a prisoner of her own mind, survived on apples and rain water, waiting for God to save her, during one of the coldest winters on record.
As her story unfolds from different perspectives, including her own, we learn about our systemic failure to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Biography
For over sixteen years, Todd and Jedd Wider have produced numerous critically and commercially successful feature documentary films including the
2012 King’s Point nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, the multiple
Primetime Emmy Awarding winning Mea Maxima Culpa:
Silence in the
House of God (2012) directed by
Alex Gibney, the
Emmy Award nominated
Semper Fi:
Always Faithful (
2011) directed by
Rachel Libert and
Tony Hardmon, the multiple Emmy Award nominated
Client 9:
The Rise and Fall of
Eliot Spitzer (
2010) directed by Alex Gibney, 2008
Academy Award Winner for
Best Documentary and 2009 Emmy Award Winner for Best Documentary,
Taxi to the Dark Side (
2007) directed by Alex Gibney, the 2008
Sundance favorite
Kicking It (2007) broadcast by
ESPN, about the
Homeless World Cup soccer tournament, the
POV film
A Dream in
Doubt (2007) about the first post
9/11 revenge killing,
Morgan Spurlock’s
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) about our obsession with materialism and consumption, the critically acclaimed
Beyond Conviction (
2006) directed by Rachel Libert, about restorative justice and victim-offender mediation in the
Pennsylvania prison system, broadcast on
MSNBC, and
Paul Cronin’s A
Time to
Stir about the
Columbia University student uprisings in
1968.
In 2011,
Todd Wider and Jedd Wider were each nominated by the
Producers Guild of America for
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical
Motion Pictures.
The Wider’s commitment to social justice through film has been and remains informed by their respective professional endeavours.
Read more about Todd and Jedd here. http://www.widerfilmprojects.com/team
Read more about the film here. http://godknowswhereiam.com/
- published: 10 May 2016
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