In May 1988, girlfriends Claudia Brenner and Rebecca Wight were attacked while hiking the Appalachian Trail by a ‘mountain man’ named Stephen Roy Carr. IN THE HOLLOW tells the story of the shooting, Wight’s death, and Brenner’s desperate survival (and later transformation into an advocate for hate crime legislation in the U.S.) as she returns to the trail for the first time since the shooting. The film combines documentary and narrative film elements, using the actual locations on the trail and dramatizations written by Claudia Brenner and director/screenwriter Austin Bunn based on her testimony. The film follows Brenner as she hikes the Appalachian Trail in search of the site of the shooting and path of her survival. Director/Co-Writer/Editor - Austin Bunn Producers: Austin Bunn, Robert Hazen, Spencer Gillis, Chris Cocco Director of Photography: Spencer Gillis *SHORT OF THE WEEK* Screenings Inside Out (Premiere) (Toronto, CA), 2015 (Audience Award – Best Short Documentary) Honolulu Rainbow LGBT Film Festival (HI), 2015 Out East, Halifax (NS), 2015 Frameline 39, San Francisco (CA), 2015 Provincetown International Film Festival (MA) 2015 Sidewalk/Shout Film Festival, Birmingham (AL), 2015 DocUTAH, St. George, Utah, 2015 Milwaukee International Film Festival (WI), 2015 Atlanta Out On Film Festival (GA), 2015. (Jury Award - Best Short Film) IRIS Prize Festival, Wales, UK, 2015 (Runner Up – Best Short Film) ImageOut Rochester LGBT Film Festival, 2015 Top Drawer – Dayton LGBT Film Festival (OH), 2015 (Audience Award – Best Short Film) Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (CA), 2015 ReelQ Film Festival, Pittsburgh (PA) 2015 MiFo LGBT Film Festival - 7th Annual Fort Lauderdale Edition, 2015 (Audience Award – Best Short Film, Jury Award – Best Short Film Runner Up) NewFest: The NYC LGBT Film Festival (NY), 2015 (Audience Award – Best Documentary Short) Queer Film Festival MEZIPATRA, Prague and Brno, Czech Republic, 2015 Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Huntington (NY), 2015 USN|expo 2015 - Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival (Italy) (Jury Prize – Best Documentary Short) San Francisco Indie Fest (CA), 2016 Mardi Gras Film Festival - Sydney, Australia, 2016 Roze Filmdagen; Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival, 2016 Queens World Film Festival (NY), 2016 (Best Short Documentary) Queer Vision Bristol Pride (Bristol, UK), 2016 London LGBT Film Festival (CA), 2016 Dyke Drama Film Festival (Perth, Australia), 2016 Rio Gender & Sexuality Film Festival, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) 2016 GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Dublin (Ireland), 2016 North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (Durham, NC) (Jury Award: Best Documentary Short Subject) QUEERSICHT Film Festival (Bern, Switzerland), 2016 Indiana Cares Campaign (PA), 2016

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