MUSKRAT LOVELY

DC Premiere

Golden Hill, Maryland is a place where time moves slowly, traditions are strong and it seems everybody is kin.

Here, gender roles are quite clear. The men spend weekends hunting muskrat and the women transform their fresh kill into delicious meals.

The annual National Outdoors Show is a yearly event that highlights the best and the brightest of the community. With equal parts glamour and gore, the main stage hosts both the Miss Outdoors Pageant and the annual muskrat-skinning competition.

Following in the footsteps of fifty years of Miss Outdoors winners, a group of eight young women vie for the title. Alternately awkward and alluring, they learn with varying degrees of success how to dress with style, walk with grace and express themselves with eloquence.

The stage is soon cleared for a spectacle of a different sort. Skinning muskrats with a small knife, contestants must be careful to pull the skin away quickly without piercing the delicate musk sack, as any false moves would stink up the whole place.

MUSKRAT LOVELY is an ironic, loving testament to tradition and civic pride. Like the animal it holds so dear, Golden Hill may not be pretty or sophisticated, but the community's uniqueness definitely has a certain allure.

-Amy Dotson

DIRECTOR BIO
Amy Nicholson is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. Currently living in New York City, she has worked as an advertising art director. While she has created numerous commercials for every imaginable type of product, she shot her first documentary two years ago, a short about the New York School of Dog Grooming titled BEAUTY SCHOOL. The film screened at film festivals and is currently appearing on the PBS program THE SHORT LIST. MUSKRAT LOVELY is her first feature.

Print Source:
7th Art Releasing
7551 Sunset Blvd. Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90046
USA
323.845.1455

PRECEDED BY...WAITING FOR HAPPINESS
Gunhild Enger
UK, 2005, 9 MINUTES

An honest, playful, and humorous film that explores the angst of being in one's twenties, grappling with the question of what to do with one's life.

Print Source:
Scottish Documentary Institute
ECA
74 Lavriston Place
Edinburgh, EH3 90F
Scotland
+44.131.221.6125
f.pretsell@eca.ac.uk

6/14 at 8:30 PM

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