Iconic Poet Mary Oliver Documentary

This moving documentary portrait about the Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver will premiere at the Provincetown Film Festival on June 11th & June 14th. Sasha Waters’ Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World features interviews with Oliver's close friends including John Waters never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks & correspondence from her archive & recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, Maria Shriver & Oprah Winfrey. Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World explores the poet’s long lifetime of work in context capturing the uniqueness of her world & the natural beauty that inspired her. Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic stalking the ponds & forests of Cape Cod for nearly 50 years in order to open herself & her readers to the known & unknowable world. Richard Lorber Kino Lorber Chairman & CEO stated, “It’s so hard to make a movie about poetry, but cinematic translator Sasha Waters has nailed it. Oliver’s words & Waters’ frames work together to dissolve that elusive membrane separating interior & exterior worlds, with enthralling, vividly visualized correlatives of what Oliver learns from nature in examining her own complex emotions. Fueled by poetry, it’s filmic fusion to be cherished.” Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World is a production of American Masters Pictures & is directed & produced by Sasha Waters. The film was originated by Executive Producer John Keith & Leah Weinkle & produced by Waters’ Pieshake Pictures & American Masters Pictures led by Executive Producer Michael Kantor. Director Sasha Waters is scheduled to attend on Thursday’s June 11th Town Hall screening for a Q&A following the film.

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