Date: Tuesday, April 28
Time: 7:00pm ET
Venue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYC
TRT: 91 minutes
Director: Sasha Waters
Producer: Sasha Waters
Executive Producers: Michael Kantor, John Keith
NYC PREMIERE. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private – Oliver’s poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and us, her readers – to the known and unknowable world. Sasha Waters’ beguiling portrait features poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters.