Page 20 - 2025 WHFF Program

The 34th Woods Hole Film Festival
FE A TURE DOCUMENT ARIES

Steve Schapiro: The Gas Station Attendant Unearth
Being Everywhere Karla Murthy • USA • 2025 • 83 min. Aube Strickland, John Hunter Nolan, Dune
Maura Smith • USA • 2025 • 71 min. A daughter reflects on her father’s life — weaving Strickland • USA • 2024 • 93 min.
the story of his miraculous journey from the streets
Traveling on his own to Arkansas to photograph of India with the realities of life in America. Using Amid the global race for critical minerals essential
to energy and national security, Bristol Bay’s com-
migrant workers in 1961 gave Steve Schapiro his recorded phone calls with her dad while he worked mercial salmon fishermen and Indigenous leaders
start as a photojournalist. He went on to photo- nights at a gas station along with home movies past confront the prospect of North America’s largest-ev-
graph Andy Warhol, Muhammed Ali, David Bowie, and present, this deeply intimate film is a medita- er copper mine in their beloved homeland, exposing
the Selma March, James Baldwin, John Lewis, Ray tion on family, the immigrant experience, and the the mining industry’s systemic recklessness while
Charles, Barbra Streisand, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, dreams we carry with us. proving the power of community activism.
and countless more - bearing witness to some of
the most significant social and cultural moments in
modern American history.

The Librarians
Kim A. Snyder • USA • 2025 • 92 min. Viva Verdi!
As an unprecedented wave of book banning is Yvonne Russo • USA • 2024 • 77 min.
The Chaplain & The Doctor sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under An intimate glimpse into the lives of the celebrated
siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for
Jessica Zitter • USA • 2025 • 86 min. intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy. opera singers and musicians currently living our
their ‘third act’ while mentoring international music
Betty Clark is an 80-year-old hospital chaplain and students who live among them at Milan’s unique
one of few African American women on staff at retirement home, Casa Verdi, built by Giuseppe Verdi
Highland Hospital, the trauma center in Oakland,
California. Jessica Zitter is a white physician who has in 1896. As stories of romance, tragedy and triumph
worked on the Palliative Care team with Betty for abound from these living treasures, it’s easy to see
over a decade, caring for patients who are approach- Verdi’s vision thriving - a life-affirming reminder of
ing the ends of their lives. Their relationship took how music moves us at a fundamental level; how
years to develop, originally beset by racial tensions nurturing artistic expression can be life- enhancing
on the team and a professional hierarchy that siloes and nourishing to the spirit at any age; and how
and divides. But over many years, their professional one distinctive retirement home has reclaimed and
relationship blossoms into a deep and caring friend- enriched thousands of artists’ lives.
ship which supports them both as they work to pro-
vide the best care possible— one patient at a time.
The Quiet Diplomat
Saturday, July 26 Charles Lyons • USA • 2025 • 65 min.
10:00pm • Captain Kidd Along with his family, Ban Ki-moon was displaced
during the Korean War. The UN Command fought
on the side of South Korea and forever changed
Sarah Burrill Band Ban’s life, inspiring him to become a man who
fought for peace throughout his career. Nearly fifty
years later, Ban was selected as the 8th Secretary
General of the UN. His ‘quiet diplomacy’ helped to
promote multilateralism at a time when collabora-
tion between countries is a key to our survival.
Welcome to Jay
Jeffrey Morgan • USA • 2024 • 105 min.
Jay is a predominantly white town in the rural coun-
tryside of northwest Florida. Ask anyone who lives in
the area – Black or white – and you’ll likely hear that
the town simply does not welcome black people
and almost no one, inside or outside the community,
knows the origins of the town’s reputation. It simply
persists. In 2010, Gus Benjamin, a Black teen from
This Band is about fun. With a song list Brewton, Alabama, attended a party in Jay, only to
that spans multiple genres, it’s not un- wind up dead, a gunshot from a hunting rifle through
his back. Robert Floyd, a young white man, is arrested
usual to hear, blues, country, R&B, classic and put on trial for second degree murder. The truths
rock, soul, alternative, pop, and reggae in Third Act that emerge rip open deep wounds from the past
between the black and white communities and lead
the same set. It becomes clear that the Tasashi Nakamura • USA • 2025 • 91 min. towards reckoning with a dark history of racial vio-
band is here for a good time and brings Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the lence that includes a shockingly similar fatal shooting
that took place almost a century before.
the audience along for the ride! godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker
Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. What begins as a
documentary about his father’s career takes a turn
with a Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis, and evolves into * Schedule subject to change. Check website
20 an exploration on art, activism, grief, and fatherhood. for lastest updates and information.