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April 12: God Knows Where I Am

God Knows Where I Am is the story of Linda Bishop, a well-educated New Hampshire mother who suffered from a severe bipolar disorder with psychosis, who was intermittently incarcerated and homeless, inevitably being committed for three years to a state psychiatric facility.

Upon her release, she wandered ten miles down the road from the hospital, broke into an abandoned farmhouse and lived off of rainwater and apples picked from a nearby orchard for the next four months, through one of the coldest winters on record. Unable to leave the house, she became its prisoner, and remained there, a prisoner of her mind, eventually starving to death. Her body was discovered several months later and with it a diary that Linda kept documenting her journey. The diary is poignant, beautiful, funny, spiritual, and deeply disturbing.

Todd and Jedd Wider directed and co-produced the documentary film God Knows Where I Am.

Winner: Special Jury Prize–2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival; Special Jury Prize–2016 Napa Valley Film Festival; Official Selection: 2016 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, 2016 NYC Docs, 2016 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and over 30 other international film festivals.

Join us for a free screening of God Knows Where I am on Wednesday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m., at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center [map]. Doug Fabrizio will host a post-film Q&A with directors Todd and Jedd Wider. It’s all part of our Through the Lens series in partnership with Utah Film CenterDETAILS

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