aka The Auteur Tribe
THE MUSE
Director: Tawny Foskett
Screening & Exhibition
Works Include:
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Lost Almost 2005, 10-min.
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This Progress, 2018, 7-min.
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The Making of Natasha & Sam, 2025, 6-min.
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Natasha & Sam (premiere) 2020, 21-min.
The Story, Short Films, Feature Script and now The Release
Tawny spent more than two decades making film and media work around her early muse, a woman she calls "Samantha," whom she fell in love with when she was twenty-three and danced, with two Brits, in a review show, in a hostess club, in Japan.
NATASHA & SAM
Director: Tawny Foskett
Screenwriter: Tawny Foskett & Cast
Genre: experimental narrative
Year: 2020
Length: 20-min, 49-sec
Format: Red
An American and two Quebec girls learn the art of deception as they embark on a dance contract in Japan, where they also must work as hostesses. Then two of them discover an attraction for each other, creating complicated dynamics...
This study of a feature, and experiment in collaboration and rehearsals, emerged as the director created her own Sundance Director's Lab and used 'the obstacles as the road'.
Cast: France Maurice, Julia Thomas, Emma Salkeld, Justine Salette
primary Crew: DP: Alexandre Desjardins, composer: Félix Tellier Pouliot, producer/AC: Siam Obregón, art director: Helen Park
WHOLE PIECES
Director: Tawny Foskett
Screenwriter: Tawny Foskett
Genre: personal-experimental
Year: 2005
Length: 10-min
Format: 16mm
Lost in a faraway land, dancing on the fringe of society,
She fell in love with a woman who brightened the darkness….
This is her story of lament.
primary Cast: Christina Swingdler, Kaci Tipton, Lisa Carpinelli, Jamie Moore & Heather Langendorf
primary Crew: music: David Bullard, Eric Minella, camera & editing: Tawny Foskett
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