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    Tell Me Everything Will Be Okay
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    Lyrical, digressive and innovative in scope and form, Jenni Olson’s latest 16mm essay film portrays the urban landscapes of California and Minnesota as it unfolds an ambitious cinematic treatise.

    SYNOPSIS
    Lyrical, digressive and innovative in scope and form, Jenni Olson’s latest 16mm essay film portrays the urban landscapes of California and Minnesota as it unfolds an ambitious cinematic treatise. In her wide-ranging voiceover soliloquy she reflects on growing up queer and gender non-conforming in Minnesota, prompting a diverse array of digressions ranging from Prince to George Floyd to the history of French colonial brutality visited on the indigenous peoples of the state—to her Scandinavian-Minnesotan alcoholic family (astutely pondering the question: “How does anyone survive this landscape?”)

    TELL ME EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY is especially about butch identity and experience. Even more important than these actual subjects, TELL ME EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY is about larger ideas. The film is interested in vulnerability as a path to self-acceptance; nostalgia as a key to lost wisdom and returning us to this moment; and storytelling itself as a mode of survival.

    PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature / Film Essay

    DIRECTOR Jenni Olson
    SCREENWRITER Jenni Olson
    PRODUCER Jenni Olson
    Cinematographer Sophie Constantinou
    EDITOR Dawn Logsdon

    WEBSITE tellmeeverythingwillbeokay.weebly.com

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