Self Reflections Documentary Block
Sunday, December 19th
12:00pm-2:00pm
Space 67
Reckoning with the Primal Wound
Feature Documentary
Director: Rebecca Autumn Sansom
Filmmaker and adoptee, Rebecca Autumn Sansom, alongside her biological mother, Jill Hawkins, Ph.D., have produced the first feature-length documentary about author Nancy Verrier’s landmark book, The Primal Wound. It’s also the first film to star Verrier herself.
The Primal Wound is in it’s 15th printing and has been a bestseller since 1993. The book remains controversial. The film not only deals with relinquishment trauma, but also Verrier’s philosophy that the damage done by the separation of a child and it’s biological mother culminates in a primal wound that must be acknowledged in order to heal.
For Sansom, “The Primal Wound was the first time I heard an alternate narrative about adoption. A narrative that resonated with my feelings of loss and grief, one that was never presented to me until I read Verrier’s eerily insightful words.”
Rebecca Autumn Sansom
Rebecca Autumn Sansom is guided by the promise of a powerful, consciously evolving humanity. As a filmmaker she was invited by Oregon's Congressman Blumenauer to screen her feature documentary Trainsforming America at the Capitol in DC. She won a 2015 Midsouth regional Emmy for her work on Tout Your Town, a travel series produced by Genuine Human Productions, Nashville TN. As a native Nashvillian, Rebecca’s life has been steeped in the sounds of Music City. Now she is hoping to disrupt the entertainment industry by creating a safe space for historically excluded talent with The Wavy Awards, which is happening on Oct. 23rd in NYC and sponsored by The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Partners include: RAMP'D (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities), Hotel Indigo, Eargasm, Gold Rush Vinyl, and Women in Vinyl.
A Day at the Beach
Documentary Short
Director: Lamesa Nashrat
Under the pressures of late-stage capitalism and the impending doom of climate change, the narrator explores past, present, and the speculative future through Google search, personal photographs, and observation of the world around her. All with the careful help of Siri and Jeff Bezos.
Lamesa Nashrat
Lamesa Nashrat is a recent graduate of the SUNY Purchase Film BFA program. She was born in Barisal, Bangladesh, and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was four years old.