Tuesday, March 3, 2015:
Still Dreaming

Still Dreaming

March 3, 2015 / 7:30 pm
St. John School of the Arts, Cruz Bay

Co-Directors Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson | 2014 | 93 min

Still Dreaming follows a group of elderly entertainers living at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey and a pair of young directors hired to stage an in-house performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As the once-celebrated performers struggle with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and physical disabilities, the play’s themes of perception, reality and memory take on new relevance and poignancy.

St John Film will be presenting Still Dreaming through Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s On Screen/In Person program.  On Screen/In Person is designed to bring some of the best new independent American films and their respective filmmakers to communities across the mid-Atlantic region. The filmmakers will tour with their films and work with the host sites to develop community activities that provide audiences context and greater appreciation for their respective work and the art of film.

Jilann Spitzmiller is a documentary producer, director, editor, cinematographer and teacher whose films have received international acclaim. She produced the award-winning Shakespeare Behind Bars and co-directed, produced and edited Homeland which aired on PBS in 2000. Spitzmiller has freelanced extensively in the documentary field, with credits such as NBC, A&E, Bravo and VH1. She is the co-director of Philomath Films, whose productions have received numerous awards including the Audience Award at AFI Fest and Best of Show at BendFilm.  Spitzmiller is also co-founder of DocuMentors, a website and mentoring service for documentary filmmakers. Spitzmiller teaches filmmaking and documentary classes in California, New Mexico and Italy.

Hank Rogerson works in both documentary and fiction film. He directed Shakespeare Behind Bars, which won eleven awards on the festival circuit and co-produced, directed and edited Homeland, an award-winning documentary about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rogerson has freelanced as a writer, director and producer within the film industry, and has twice been a Sundance Institute Fellow.  Together with Spitzmiller, he is the co-director of Philomath Films and the co-founder of DocuMentors.  He currently teaches filmmaking at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. *Hank is not touring with the program.

Jilann Spitzmiller

Hank Rogerson