Bella Vista film screens Thursday at college
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PABLO — Bella Vista will screen at the Johnny Arlee/Victor Charlo Theater on the campus of Salish Kootenai College in Pablo at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 30. There is no charge for the screening.
The director, Vera Brunner-Sung, producers Jeri Rafter and Brooke Swaney will attend as well as cast members Sam Sandoval and David Weinandy. They will be available to answer questions following the screening.
The film depicts an English language instructor who is adrift in the American West. While her students find stability and community, she veers toward crisis. The film is a meditation on displacement and adaptation in the contemporary American West.
Bella Vista follows the lives of outsiders in Missoula. Teaching English to a group of international students, 30-something Doris finds herself increasingly alone. While she grasps for the connection that might save her, it’s her students who understand what it takes to belong.
“I am interested in what happens when we are separated from our origins,” Director Vera Brunner-Sung said. “The child of immigrants to the United States, I grew up in a land that considers this removal a promise of freedom and opportunity. But what are its consequences? Bella Vista explores both sides: the perils of rootlessness, as well as the optimism of new beginnings. These themes have crystallized for me while living in the western U.S., where powerful American archetypes — the Indigenous, the Emigrant, the Drifter–are very much alive. In a land of shifting identities, I would like to know what remains constant.
