SXSW, Sundance ,PBS, Amazon films!

SXSW, Sundance, PBS, Amazon and more!

We are thrilled to announce a string of screenings by astonishingly talented fillmakers- all featuring music and audio post production by the Disher Sound team!

“Camp Widow”📅 Date: SXSW: March 9, 2:30PM, March 12 11AM  Documentary Short Program 2 at Rollins Theatre at The Long Center

Filmmakers in attendance

Directed by:  Laura Green, Anna Moot-Levin

Camp Widow is a gathering for widowed people by widowed people. Over the course of three days, attendees speak candidly about death, forge connections with others over shared experiences of loss, and find ways to navigate the tricky waters of grief. Founded by Michele Neff Hernandez, who suddenly became a widow at age 35, the camp offers a way to both recognize tremendous loss, while at the same time celebrating continued life. The film follows an ensemble of campers who are weary of platitudes about grief, and speak to one another from a place of radical honesty that is by turns heartbreaking and darkly hilarious, embracing irreverent humor as a cathartic means of self-expression.

Sound Editorial and Mix: Paul Zahnley CAS, Disher Sound

Out For Delivery

Writer/Director Chelsea Christer

Sundance Nominee: Best Short Film, Best Narrative Short

Joanna, facing a terminal illness, opts for assisted death under the Death with Dignity Act. However, her pursuit of a peaceful end-of-life experience encounters unexpected complications and challenges. Actors Deanna Rooney (Mystery Science Theatre 3000) and Martin Starr (Silicon Valley) (Tulsa King)

Sound Editorial and Mix:  Ben Hicks, Disher Sound

Singing For Justice

Filmmaker: Christie Herring

Screening and streaming in March on PBS!

(see details in link below)

Singing for Justice tells the story of Faith Petric, a political radical, community organizer and charismatic performer who united folk music and progressive causes from the 1930s through the early 2000s. Narrated largely by Faith herself, the film weaves her musical and political journeys to showcase the central role of folk music in the transformational social movements of the 20th century.  

More than a decade in the making, Singing for Justice launches nationally on PBS in March 2025. The film had its world premiere in October 2024 at the United Nations Association Film Festival. Since then, the film has been recognized by women’s film festivals including the Montreal Women's Film Festival, Toronto International Women's Film Festival, WRPN Women's International Film Festival, TO.GET.HER, and FLOW Film Festival and Film Market. Singing for Justice was awarded Best Editor by LA Independent Women Film Awards and Runner Up Best Documentary by B!tchFest Film Festival & Screenplay Contest.

Sound Editorial and Mix: Paul Zahnley CAS, Disher Sound

https://www.pbs.org/show/singing-for-justice/

Qatar Stars

Daniielle Beverly: Director,Producer, Camera

San Francisco, Roxie Theatre: March 26 at 6:15pm Women's History Month Festival

Filmmaker and crew in attendance.

QATAR STARS, a multi-award winning film, is the first feature documentary about girls in Qatar. It offers a textured observational story of girlhood in all its joys and growing pains, through intimate access to a multinational, girls-only rhythmic gymnastics school in Doha, led by a former Russian gymnast. Girls from Qatar, Lebanon, Egypt, Ukraine, and UK grow up onscreen over four years, changing from wiggly nine-year-olds to maturing teens who must navigate an evolving gendered world around them. The girls experience both triumphs and heartaches, to ultimately form an unbreakable bond. Meanwhile, exacting coach Tatiana undergoes her own unexpected professional and personal transformation that challenges her sense of strength and identity.

Sound Designer: Tom Disher.    Re-recording Mixers: Paul Zahnley CAS, Tom Disher.  Sound Editorial: Chase Carter, Sampreeth Lokesh

David Schendel’s Film “Enduring Democracy” has PBS broadcast distribution! The newly edited PBS version will be showing and streaming nationwide.

Led by John Steinbeck's editor, a group of women activists protest Japanese American incarceration and resist racism in WWII California. Recently in a dusty filing cabinet in Monterey, California a local historian made the amazing discovery of a  trove of signed petitions demanding the restoration of civil rights to those same Americans. As historian Tim Thomas dug deeper into the origins of both the film and the petition drive he discovered a story that stands as a lesson for all Americans interested in preserving our democracy. . Inspired by Mollie Sumida's letter to the editor written while imprisoned in camp and impervious to threats of violence, residents banded together to get their community to sign Toni Jackson's petition pledging "The Democratic Way of Life for All." The petition drive and subsequent posting in The Monterey Herald effectively put a stop to the public efforts of several well funded fear campaigns against California Japanese American Citizens.

Music: Tom Disher and Matt Montgomery, Sound Design: Ben Hicks.

Re-recording Mix: Paul Zahnley, Tom Disher

A Long Road to Tao

Filmmakers Michael Allen and Alex Carig’s

award winning film gets Amazon distribution!

Inspired by a true story of best friends (Dayne and Lance) who mysteriously lose touch, then reunite when Dayne discovers that Lance is dying of AIDS. A journey ensues as spiritual enlightenment unfolds through sea, sand and nature, embracing acceptance of the inevitable death of his best friend and the rising of consciousness. A Long Road to Tao will encourage audiences to reach a depth of becoming water, facing fears and accepting the flow of love as love.

Sound design. editorial, foley and mix by the Disher Sound Team, with additional music by Tom Disher

To rent or buy the film, click here!

Thank you to all the filmmakers for making us part of your team, and thank you to our  friends for attending their performances.

We look forward to seeing you at these remarkable screenings!Make sure to save the dates and celebrate the power of storytelling through film, brought to life with the sound expertise of Disher Sound.