Laura Kissel

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DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION & Director of Photgraphy credits Cotton Road (in post production) Open Secret (release: late 2010) director of photography directed by Steve Lickteig Portrait of Turner (2009) director of photography Directed by Irene Gustafson Incoming Messages (2007) director of photography Directed by Irene Gustafson Beyond the Classroom: China (2008) Unfettering the Falcons (2007) Cabin Field (2005) Finding Lula (2002) Vivian's Beauty Shop (2001) Leaving Bristol (1999) Verdant Hills: Healing Nature, Sustaining Life (1998)

Unfettering the Falcons produced, directed, edited by Niklas Sven Vollmer and Laura Kissel DV Cam, TRT: 8:00 DOWNLOAD PRESSBOOK | high res image Part road movie, part nature documentary, Unfettering the Falcons questions the false gender identity of the Atlanta Falcons football team via identical twin bird of prey experts who spark a quirky courtship between an American Kestrel (falcon) and a has-been 1991 Toyota Tercel (the "falcon" is a female bird a third stronger and larger than its male counterpart, the "tercel"). Screenings : Nashville Film Festival Nashville, TN April 23, 2008 Atlanta Film Festival Atlanta, GA April 17, 2008 at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema Indie Grits Film Festival Columbia, SC April 10, 2008 at the Nickelodeon Theater EarthVision Environmental Film Festival Santa Cruz, CA March 4, 2008 Katherine Knight Award Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Missoula, MT Feb. 16, 2008 Northwest Film Forum Seattle, WA January 14, 2008 IDC Showcase, sponsored by SILVERDOCS at the AFI Theater, Silver Springs, MD October 9, 2007 DokuFest Kosovo, Yugoslavia August 2007 Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada April 28, 2007 IDC Original Vision Award and Best Sports Documentary International Documentary Challenge Finalist March 2007 Other honors : Semi-Finalist 2007 ACE / SILVERDOCS Documentary Grant (Top 10 out of 100 entries)

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