Kaziah at the Documentary Festivals

I recently had the wonderful opportunity to visit Brattleboro, VT. A sleepy little town just on the southern border of Vermont, naturally. The Women’s Film Festival found our little film, Kaziah the Goat Woman,  and invited us to screen at their very important festival. This festival is a fundraiser for the Women’s Crisis center there.

It just so happens that my cousin also lives in that town! So I got a very personal and up close look at this town. Even though it was in the mud season, I knew this place was quite special. No traffic, clean air and tons of artists mulling about.

Our film was scheduled to show on the first Sunday of the festival. We were programmed with what turned out to be a very special film called Motherland.  What made this screening extra special for us was that Kaziah had flown in a portrait of a fallen hero that I was to give to his mother. I was nervous and honored all in the same breath.  Kyle Gilbert was accomplished in martial arts and his mothers only child.

I am happy to say that Regina was thrilled. She said Kaziah captured her baby. It was like he was right there in the room with her.

Kaziah Hancock is an amazing woman doing amazing things. I am honored and blessed to have been able to capture her true being on film to immortalize her. If you read this and are touched, she really needs support to continue gifting these portraits to families of fallen soldiers.

Thank you.