By a stream in the woods - a place between worlds - two women find each other ankle-deep in the water, letting go of what's past and wondering what will come.

Birdwatching by Samantha Soule
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"I really wasn’t raised with much in the way of organized religion, so for me, exploring what the end of life might be feels most true when it is a natural progression of what we already know. I wanted to just let it be organic. Maybe that’s all it is. You wake and put one foot in front of another and find your way towards the next chapter? I don’t know. But the natural world is so full of worlds, you know? Caterpillars becoming moths. Birds in migration. Trees in decomposition. Fungi and plant life and us…all living alongside and cycling through and around one another, it feels connected to the liminal to me.

We shot it in a single day, at our homes, Amanda Seyfried 9 months pregnant. We tromped through the woods and through the river. A thunderstorm rolled through and then the sun came out. We had no lights, no mics or sounds crews, no dolly or track and recorded the audio in VO with Daniel Talbott on the phone from across the country cheering us on, my dad and I passing the camera back and forth, and Amanda and Sharon Washington launching themselves wholeheartedly into this ephemeral little world."

Read our full interview with Samantha
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// Credits //
Directed by Samantha Soule
Written by Daniel Talbott
Starring Amanda Seyfried and Sharon Washington
Produced by Lovell Holder) Samantha Soule Addie Johnson Talbott and Daniel Talbott
Cinematography by Rob Whittlesey
Edited by Samantha Soule
Music by David Gonzalez
Post-Production Services by Tunnel Post
Color by Sebastian Perez-Burchard
Post-Production Audio by Private Island Audio

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