James Carrington

Trailblazing filmmaker Martha Coolidge’s uncompromising feature debut centers on an intense reenactment of her experience of rape in her adolescence. A high-stakes experiment in metacinema, this unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction examines attitudes concerning consent and self-blame, the on-screen representation of sexual violence and the limits of artistic catharsis.

In the innovative blending of fact and fiction, filmmaker Jake Wade Wall explores parallel stories of the history of a region of Texas known as The Devil’s Backbone and the life of his estranged father who resided there until his death. However, the story soon turns to focus on Jake as his own sanity comes into question and is it tied to the stories of the supernatural that roam The Devil’s Backbone.