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Winesburg, Ohio and Lost in Winesburg

Screened at Athens International Film and Video Festival (2008), International Film Festival England (2008)

Winesburg, Ohio and Lost in Winesburg – both produced by Jennifer Granville, were funded by an Ohio University 1804 Foundation Award and the Ohio Humanities Council. Filmed entirely on location in Athens, Nelsonville, Logan and Pomeroy, the films are a unique collaboration between the local community and Ohio University students, alumni, staff and faculty.

Winesburg, Ohio is not only experimental in its collaborative nature of production, but is an experimental narrative adaptation of the classic novel by Sherwood Anderson. The film was produced in a unique fashion – attempting to work in the locations where the original stories were set, using local people to mirror the stories in the novel. Lost in Winesburg is a documentary that examines both the enduring legacy of Anderson’s book, by examining present day small town Ohio and the attempt to adapt Winesburg, Ohio for the screen.

The resulting films are screened together and illustrate and explore whether or not filmmaking can work as a collaborative venture when the collaborators are both artists and non-artists, fictional and real.