SHOWING:
11:15 am, Sat. 9/23 @ Alabama Power
directed by Amy Nicholson
Every year in the town of Golden Hill, contestants gather for two important competitions in the National Outdoor Show. Local high school girls compete to become “Miss Outdoors,” queen of the show and its representative for the coming year. On the very same stage, the world’s best muskrat skinners compete to see who can skin the fastest.
MUSKRAT LOVELY is a documentary that follows the events leading to the 50th crowning of “Miss Outdoors.” More than just a story about your average beauty pageant at a muskrat skinning competition, the film explores the importance of the contest to the young women who enter it, and allows us a 'peak behind the curtains' of excitement in a unique corner of the world. The film is an ironic and tender look at the yearly event of a close-knit community in a remote area of the Chesapeake Bay. A place where men still make their living off the water, and the opportunities for glamour are few.
Director Bio:
Amy Nicholson is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. Currently living in New York City, she has worked as an advertising art director. While she has created numerous commercials for every imaginable type of product, she shot her first documentary two years ago, a short about the New York School of Dog Grooming titled BEAUTY SCHOOL. MUSKRAT LOVELY is her first feature.
Screens with KEY WEST COCK TALES, directed by Christa Carnell (23 min. / USA). The hilarious true story of a town divided between chicken-lovers and chicken-haters, and the barber caught in the middle.
