Saturday, May 13, 1:30 PM, Charles Theatre 1
Sunday, May 14, 5:00 PM, Charles Theatre 3

Director: Lynn Shelton

Cast: Amber Hubert, Maggie Brown, Robert Hamilton Wright, Aaron Blakely, Basil Harris, Russell Hodgkinson, Sullivan Brown

Country: USA
Year: 2006
Running Time: 80:00 minutes
Format: 35mm

At thirteen-years-old we look forward to adulthood with anticipation and enthusiasm. What will we become? What will our job be? Will we be married? Of course the counterpoint is when we become adults, what would our thirteen-year-old self think about the choices we’ve made and where we are in life?

Kate is a hard-working young actress with a small theatre company. Her desire to please others has led her to become something of a doormat as everyone around her continually place burdens on her because they know she will never say no. On her twenty-third birthday she lands her first leading role, and it seems like she might be on the road to fulfilling her dreams. The same day she reads a cheerfully inquisitive letter written by her thirteen-year-old self that makes her question where she is and where she’s going.

We Go Way Back was winner of the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature as well as the award-winner for Cinematography at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival. Amber Hubert commands the screen in her performance as Kate. Though the character is passive, the performance is gripping and compelling, and writer/director Lynn Shelton is able to get at Kate’s inner struggle with her younger self. Sometimes the hardest person to face up to is yourself.

-- Dan Krovich

Presented By: Lynn Shelton

We Go Way Back is the debut feature from filmmaker Lynn Shelton. Shelton spent a dozen years acting and writing for the stage before going to graduate school in Photography and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. There, she became an experimental filmmaker, studying with such luminaries as Ed Bowes and Peggy Ahwesh. Since then, her films have been screened at dozens of festivals and venues. Juror Todd Haynes called her award-winning experimental documentary, The Clouds That Touch Us Out Of Clear Skies, “powerfully absorbing”and Ira Glass (of “This American Life”) said that the film “takes a subject that’s inherently upsetting and makes it compelling”. In the role of film editor, Shelton has collaborated on a host of projects, including Paul Willis’ experimental feature Hedda Gabler and Alec Carlin’s award-winning feature Outpatient as well as on numerous shorts, including Hello starring Eric Stoltz and 8 Minutes To Love starring Sandra Oh.