As her 93-year-old uncle Roy develops life-threatening dementia, filmmaker Keri Pickett’s decades-long quest to secure a home for his legendary theatrical ice-skating collection and gay male nude photography takes on a new urgency, racing to preserve his artistic legacy before his final curtain call.
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Director/DP
Keri Pickett
Producer/Editor
Dawn Mikkelson
Additional Cinematography
Dawn Mikkelson, Shiho Fukada, Mark Brown
Composer
Me-Lee Hay
Color Grading
Oscar Oboza at Nice Shoes
Re-recording Mix
Carly Zuckweiler
Fiscal Sponsor
Keri Pickett (Director / Director of Photography)
Award-winning artist, producer, director, cinematographer. Pickett’s documentary films FINDING HER BEAT (2022), FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE BLACK SNAKE (2017) and THE FABULOUS ICE AGE (2013) have won multiple awards and screened at festivals around the world, breaking records in attendance, and streamed on Netflix. A well known photographer, Pickett has published multiple photography books, with photographs displayed in international and national museums and have appeared in Life, Time, People, Stern, and Geo magazines, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Bush Foundation, McKnight, Jerome, and Target Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Pickett was awarded the 2018 McKnight Filmmaking Fellowship.
Dawn Mikkelson (Producer/Editor)
Emmy Award winning producer and McKnight Filmmaking Fellow, whose work has broadcast, streamed and screened internationally. Festival screenings of her feature documentaries include: the Galway Film Fleadh, Cinequest, Mill Valley Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival, DOC NYC, Frameline Film Festival, and American Indian Film Festival. Broadcast and streaming include: APT (American Public Television), PBS, CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation), Yes-Docu (Israel), Deutsche Welle (Germany), iTunes, and Amazon Prime. Mikkelson has completed seven award-winning independent feature documentaries, MINNESOTA MEAN (2023), FINDING HER BEAT (2022), RISKING LIGHT (2018), THE RED TAIL (2009), GREEN GREEN WATER (2007), THIS OBEDIENCE (2003), and TREADING WATER: A DOCUMENTARY (1999), character-driven films highlighting power and joy in the margins.
Me-Lee Hay (Original Score)
Composer for Pickett & Mikkelson’s film, FINDING HER BEAT (2022), Hay composes for film, TV, dance and theatre. A Malaysian born Chinese-Australian, Hay has had works shown across many platforms including Netflix, Australian commercial TV channels to international platforms such as UKTV distribution and 360 degree dome planetariums. Off screen Hay has been commissioned by leading arts companies of Australia such as Sydney Dance Company’s PPY & Sydney Theatre Company. Hay is a graduate of the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS), is an Associate Composer Representative of the Australian Music Centre and the Vice President of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. She is published by Gaga music.
