2017

Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry

ABOUT

LOOK & SEE is a cinematic portrait of farmer and writer Wendell Berry. Through his eyes, we see both the changing landscapes of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture and the redemptive beauty in taking the unworn path.

Program Feature
Section Best of Fest
Runtime 1:20
Country United States
Language English

Laura Dunn started making documentaries in response to her undergraduate experience at Yale University. Through a chronicle of labor strikes on campus, THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION examines the corporatization of higher education. Her first feature, THE UNFORESEEN, executive produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, premiered at Sundance, was released theatrically and broadcast on the Sundance Channel. More recently, LOOK & SEE premiered at Sundance, Berlinale, and SXSW where it won a Special Jury Prize for Visual Design. LOOK & SEE toured to hundreds of small rural communities , aired on PBS Indepdent Lens and is currently streaming on Netflix. Honors include a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, Student Academy Award, Yale’s Trumbull Fine Arts Prize, International Documentary Association Pare Lorenz Grant and an Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award. She lives in Chattanooga, TN with her husband and six sons.

CREDITS

Director
Laura Dunn
Jef Sewell
Producer
Terrence Malick
Robert Redford
Nick Offerman
Elaine Musselman
Editor
Laura Dunn

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