Julia Haslett edited a short documentary about a group of botanists classifying rare rhododendron species in the Scottish Highlands. This piece offered her a whimsical break from distributing her feature documentary, An Encounter with Simone Weil, which opened theatrically in New York City in March 2012. The documentary also played at Facets Cinematheque (Chicago), DOXA Documentary Film Festival (Vancouver), and the London International Documentary Film Festival (United Kingdom).
Discipline:
Film/Video – documentary
Julia Haslett
Discipline:
Film/Video – documentary
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005, 2012
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New Hampshire
Julia Haslett worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…