The Unknown Country
Directed by Morrisa Maltz // 85 mins // Feature Film
An invitation to reunite with her estranged Lakota family launches a grieving young woman (Lily Gladstone) on an unexpected road trip from the Midwest toward the Texas-Mexico border.
Guest: Morrisa Maltz is an artist and filmmaker. She holds a degree in Fine Art from Columbia University. Her work has been shown at MOCA, MCASB and galleries internationally. Her first film, THE CARETAKER, won Best Narrative Short at the 2012 LES Film Festival in New York. Her second film, ODYSSEA, premiered at Slamdance in 2014. Morrisa’s first feature documentary, INGRID, premiered on PBS last spring and is distributed by Grasshopper Film. INGRID was a 2018 Festival Gem, and featured on Hammer to Nail’s top 20 films of 2018 as well as articles by The Sundance Institute and Movie Maker Magazine. She is currently finishing post production of her first narrative feature, THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY. Morrisa is a 2018/2019 AFS North Texas Pioneer grant recipient and was included in the IFP Narrative Lab 2019 US in Progress Poland and the 2019 AFS Artist Intensive.