B y now, just after per year into movie festival routine, filmmaker Wes Hurley, ’04, has received accustomed the questions. Obtained be inevitable after audiences see his scrappy autobiographical flick, “Potato Dreams of The united states.” In which he can’t extremely blame people.
“It’s a wild tale,” Hurley acknowledges on the their queer upcoming-of-years memoir one starts in the failing You.S.S.R. and you will is targeted on younger Hurley and his awesome mommy, a prison derican movies and soon after emigrated so you’re able to Seattle when she became a mail-purchase bride. “At each and every Q&A good, I give anybody it’s actually 99.9% true. I didn’t build one thing upwards about tale. It has got an unique brand of tone so you’re able to it. However, there are no incidents otherwise twists otherwise converts which can be created. It is all from real life.”
“Potato Ambitions” opens in gritty Vladivostok, Russia, with a very more youthful Potato (born Vasili Naumenko) viewing his father violence his mother more than a container regarding alcoholic drinks. It’s a disastrous world you to sets up new film’s grim beginning work. Ninety moments later-rather than offering everything aside-rips away from sadness try replaced with tears of contentment on an effective Seattle film set in a great meta second one to finishes an extraordinary tale arc.
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It’s an excellent cathartic feel that has the fingerprints of UW students around they (we’ll reach one to in a bit). It’s very unforgettable, an early 13-moment type created mostly out of Hurley and his mom count-of-factly telling the tale grabbed the competition jury’s desire from the South by Southwestern. Continue reading “Filmmaker Wes Hurley and his awesome UW staff you live its ‘Potato Hopes and dreams’”