When The Automat director Lisa Hurwitz left her family's home in Southern California to go to Evergreen State College in Olympia, Oregon, she found that the place where she was most comfortable was the school's cafeteria, the Greenery. "I made new friends there every day and there was a different food every day," she says. Hurwitz's academic focus wasn't film: "I took one documentary filmmaking course, just before I graduated." But she also had a job projecting 35mm movies at Olympia's Capitol T...
A Restaurant's Democratic Promise: Director Lisa Hurwitz and Her Doc, The Automat
Filmmaker Magazine - 20 Feb 2022 22:20
When The Automat director Lisa Hurwitz left her family's home in Southern California to go to Evergreen State College in Olympia, Oregon, she found that the place where she was most comfortable was the school's cafeteria, the Greenery. "I made new friends there every day and there was a different food every day," she says. Hurwitz's academic focus wasn't film: "I took one documentary filmmaking course, just before I graduated." But she also had a job projecting 35mm movies at Olympia's Capitol T...
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