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Local filmmaker's short film selected for NGO International Film Festival

Chelsie Richter prepared this edible art installation to accompany the film 'A Piece of Me'
Leslie Thatcher
Chelsie Richter prepared this edible art installation of Salt Lake's Twin Peaks to accompany the film, A Piece of Me

Park City Local Ginger Tolman’s 2020 film A Piece of Me has been selected by the NGO International Film Festival– a festival sponsored by the United Nations in support of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The film - which premiered in 2020 just weeks before the pandemic shut everything down - was one of 20 films accepted into the NGO International Film Festival that took place this week in Nairobi, Kenya, and virtually. The film festival, sponsored by the United Nations, was a way for the UN to support its 17 sustainable development goals.

Tolman says this is the first film festival she applied for and was thrilled to be included.

“We are just delighted and honored and stunned,” Tolman said. It's the only festival we've submitted it to, and this one was kind of unique because the, the requirements were that the film had to have an association with a nonprofit that addressed one of these goals. And so, it was kind of a fine line but there were 90, submissions and 20 were selected so we feel pretty good about that.”

Tolman received a commission from a Utah organization, 801 Creative Woman, to produce and direct the film. It was also accompanied by an edible art installation based on the Broad’s Fork Twin Peaks overlooking the Salt Lake Valley. The film features Chelsie Richter, a professional chef and artist, who digs deep into her garden to make food and art in the most trying of times.

“We won the commission,” Tolman said, “and it became the film A Piece of Me, and also an art installation that was adjacent to the film. The film has to do with the journey of Chelsie Richter and her journey through cancer and other complications in her life that were happening at the same time, and how she survived it, and how she got through it.”

The film highlights a handful of the United Nation’s 17 sustainable goals, including, no poverty, zero hunger, and good health and well-being.

“One of those is gender equality and safety for women,” Tolman said. “And so, a lot of the film itself talks about some of the challenges of Chelsea, as a woman, trying to get cancer treatment. You know, insurance problems. So, it also called into some of the work around sustainable health and sustainable, insurance, things like that that and I'm not I'm trying to find peace and justice and strong institutions, so they actually identified three areas that fit.”

While Tolman had hoped to travel to Kenya for the festival, with only two to three percent of the population there vaccinated for COVID-19, the festival was moved online. You can see the film yourself on the A Piece of Me Project Facebook or Instagram pages.

https://www.facebook.com/APieceofMeProject

https://www.instagram.com/apieceofmeproject/