THE HALFWAY BETWEEN ALL THIS is a conversation and a meditation on the role of images and trauma and the impossibility of truly processing an event as horrific as the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath.
While working for CARE International in the displaced persons camps as a relief worker in Rwanda in the fall of 1994, filmmaker Heather Greer gave 12 rolls of film to a colleague traveling back to the US. These photographs had been taken to document CARE’s relief activities. Due to a family emergency, the film never arrived at CARE’s headquarters in Atlanta. In 2018, Heather received a note. The wrapped box - untouched for 25 years - had been found in the colleague’s father’s attic. Would she like to have the film back? When the box arrived, Heather decided to record the processing of the pictures and speak with photographer Gilles Peress who had been in Rwanda during the genocide. Part fractal, part time capsule, THE HALFWAY BETWEEN ALL THIS captures a moment between two people reflecting on photography, memory, time, and history. This piece is a conversation and a meditation on the role of images and trauma and the impossibility of truly processing an event as horrific as genocide.
Heather Greer is an Emmy-winning producer, award-winning filmmaker, and media artist. She is the founder of Black Tartan Studios, an Emmy-winning production company and boutique creative agency that specializes in short-form, nonfiction content centered around powerful human-driven stories. Heather’s films and video installations have screened and been exhibited nationally and internationally at leading festivals and arts venues including MoMA, Tribeca, BAFICI, the Female Eye Film Festival, the Calgary International Film Festival, and CineDoc.
THE HALFWAY BETWEEN ALL THIS, a short documentary that she co-directed and produced, was an official selection at the 2024 Calgary International Film Festival. She is currently co-directing and producing HILDA O. VS. THE STATE OF NEW YORK, a short documentary that follows 81-year-old Hilda Onley between deposition and court judgment as she seeks justice for the sexual abuse she endured while at the New York State Training School for Girls in 1958. NEVEREVERLAND, Heather’s feature narrative screenplay, was a selected project for the 2024 Stowe Narrative Lab. Heather holds a masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University.
Calgary International Film Festival - 2024
US Premiere - Big Apple Film Festival - 2024
