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New Orleans Film Society

Now, Forager

USA/POLAND 93 min.

Directors
Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin
Producers
Julia Halperin, Kit Bland
Writer
Jason Cortlund
Cinematographer
Jonathan Nastasi
Editor
Julia Halperin
Director Bio
Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin have been collaborating since 1996. Their work has shown worldwide at festivals and arts institutions including Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, International Film Festival Rotterdam, SXSW, and Royal Belgian Film Archive. They’ve received accolades from Texas Filmmakers Production Fund, Texas Commission on the Arts, San Francisco Film Society, US In Progress, The Journal of Short Film, and were named to The Independent’s “10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2012.”
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Synopsis

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

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