deadCENTER Film Festival

World Premiere

A personal portrait about journalist and philanthropist Edith Gaylord.  Edith was a ground-breaking journalist in the 1940's helping to break through the glass ceiling of the male dominated newspaper business.  Later in life, Edith devoted herself to philanthropy, anonymously giving millions away to the arts and the downtrodden.

45 min/OK
Director: Bryan Beasley
Producers: Justin Sloggatt, Bob Blackburn, Bob Ross
Writer: Bryan Beasley
Cast: Amy Ulrich
 

Directed by Oklahoma’s Sundance winning filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, This May Be The Last Time is the story of Muscogee Creek and Seminole hymns, a unique style of singing that blended European music with plantation gospels and indigenous music to create America’s first original music. Told through a first-person voice-over by Harjo, the film travels through rural southeastern Oklahoma to uncover the stories of these songs and meet the people that keep it alive. It's a personal film about songs that is all woven together by a mystery; the death of the filmmaker’s grandfather. It's a very exclusive world that the viewer is let in on, and by the end they will realize that these songs have shaped the modern world as we know it.

95 mins/OK
Director: Sterlin Harjo
Producers: Sterlin Harjo, Matt Leach, Christina King, Vincent LoVoi, Michael Mason