Now, Forager

Now, Forager

Lucien (Jason Cortlund, right) selling blewits (Lepista nuda) to Duncan (Eric Dean Scott) in a scene from NOW, FORAGER, a film by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin. Picture courtesy Small Drama. All rights reserved.

Now, Forager

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Now, Forager (2012)

Opened: 01/27/2012 In Festival Release

Festival Relea...01/27/2012
World Premiere01/27/2012 - 01/29/20123 days
Rotterdam02/03/2012 - 02/03/20121 day
Lincoln Center03/30/2012 - 03/30/20121 day
MoMA/NYC04/01/2012 - 04/01/20121 day

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Genre: Drama

Rated: Unrated

Synopsis

Lucien and Regina gather wild mushrooms in the woodlands of New Jersey and sell them to restaurants in New York. Their lifestyle is simple, their income unstable. Regina decides to take a full-time job cooking at a high-end restaurant to improve their financial security and to follow a more fulfilling personal career path. Feeling threatened, Lucien proposes that instead of selling out, they give up their apartment and drive to the more-profitable West Coast as full-time itinerant foragers. As individual desires take them down divergent paths over the course of a year, their marriage comes apart.

Filmmaker Biographies

Jason Cortlund (Writer/Co-Director/"Lucien")

Jason Cortlund studied film and writing at University of Oregon and earned a Master's in screenwriting at University of Texas. He was 1998 postgraduate fellow at the James Michener Center for Writers. His films (made with collaborator Julia Halperin) have shown at festivals, museums, and arts institutions around the world. Cortlund's work has been honored by Texas Filmmaker's Production Fund, Texas Commission on the Arts, Texas Filmmakers Showcase, City of Austin Cultural Contracts, Hershey Foundation, Pacific Northwest Writer's Association, Centrum Institute, and Gotham in Progress. He's currently a finalist for a San Francisco Film Society Hearst Screenwriting Grant for his script Lumberjunkies.

Julia Halperin (Producer/Co-Director/Editor)

Julia Halperin received her B.A. summa cum laude from Hunter College and her M.F.A from the University of Texas. Julia's directing credits include Texas Pawn, recipient of a Texas Filmmaker's Production Fund award and a Liberace Foundation grant. Her film SuperDoll received support from City of Austin Cultural Contracts and The Texas Commission on the Arts, and a cinematography award at Cinematexas. Her films (made with collaborator Jason Cortlund) have screened at SXSW, Austin Film Festival, Texas Filmmakers Showcase at the Directors Guild of America, Pacific Film Archive, Chicago Filmmakers, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Aurora Picture Show, and Gotham in Progress. Julia has also worked as an editor for Greta Schiller, Heather Courtney, and Redmond Entwistle.

 

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