Interviews

Interview: Marnie Ellen Hertzler – Crestone | 2018 US in Progress – American Film Festival in Wrocław

Published on February 10, 2019

Currently making the rounds with her Locarno/Rotterdam selected short Hi I Need To Be Loved, Baltimorean video artist/filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler will likely be unpacking her feature debut sometime this year. Diverging from the traditional narrative storytelling, Hertzler truly imbeds herself in her feature debut Crestone, at once, a tale of day-to-day survivalism of a wolfpack and, an unflinching docu on ingenuity, creativity and how art fills the soul and belly. Crestone was among the quartet of projects featured at the 2018 US in Progress – American Film Festival in Wrocław. Here is my sit-down with Marnie Ellen Hertzler.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).