Directed by Kerry Barber

Logline: In the form of a letter, the filmmaker defends herself against her ex-lover's family, who believe she lied about her endometriosis

Synopsis: There is a long and tragic history of women not being believed when they tell the truth about their lives' especially about the lives of their bodies and this film is a deeply intimate take on that injustice so intimate, the filmmaker even takes us inside her own body. Told in the form of a letter to a family, it is accompanied by documentary images from the filmmaker's life.

Distribution Contact: WFG

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RUNTIME: 6 Minutes
GENRE: Documentary
PRODUCTION FORMAT: 16mm, Super 8mm, HD, Computer Animation, SD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: British Columbia
TECHNIQUES: Drawing/painting on paper, Computer Animation
KEYWORDS: Portrait, Romance, Self, Tragedy, Women, Feminism, Love Story, Endometriosis, Health, Indigenous Filmmaker, Culturally Diverse Filmmaker, Female Filmmaker

Director's Statement: Dear Hatetts is an exploratory film dealing with validity and misunderstandings. A letter to a family in which I tried to validate myself, Dear Hatetts tried to make clear what really happened, and explores my voice in a way that has not been heard until now. My previous work almost always relies on scenarios that we all think, but no one ever says anything about it. In my films, I become that voice and it is fun to see how it unfolds in the medium of filmmaking and see the brush strokes of colour and sound as that voice emerges. My influences are the old black and white movies from the 1950s and 60s that I would watch with my mom on CBC late night movies in a winter northern town of frequent temperatures of -50.