Open the box. Dump out all the pieces. And scramble for your lives! This is competitive jigsaw puzzling, and it’ll turn even the mildest mannered Midwesterners into hardcore competitors. Every January, the top teams from around the country gather at the St. Paul Winter Carnival in frigid Minnesota to compete for the title of fastest puzzler in the country. Wicker Kittens takes you into this puzzling world, following the returning champs, the upstart challengers, the sunny family, and the dark horse team with nothing to lose. Follow them as they try to put the pieces back together in this quirky, fun doc from South By Southwest Film Festival.
Amy Elliott is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in New York City. She has been shooting motion and still editorial assignments for over fifteen years, with a particular focus on regional American culture. She directed and shot the feature documentaries Salvage (2019), Wicker Kittens (2014) and World's Largest (2010). She was awarded the American Society of Media Photographer's Best of 2012 honors for The War Within, a major multimedia project for The American Legion, focusing on post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans. Other clients include The New York Times, American Road and The Public Art Fund. She is a graduate of Princeton University.
