Grateful to team up again with Erik Buckham of Palaceworks @seabuckler — he designed our In Transit poster years back and brought his keen eye to this one too. I know enough Photoshop to get myself in trouble. Erik knew enough to save it.
“A lyrical, empathetic, elegiac portrait of Tangier Island.”
Thank you @alissawilkinson and @nytimes for featuring us!
Opening tonight @quadcinema :
quadcinema.com/film/been-here-stay-here
May 15–21
POST-SCREENING Q&As Friday May 15 – 7pm
David Usui, Director
James “Ooker” Eskridge, Tangier Island mayor
Moderated by Duy Linh Tu, Columbia Journalism School
Saturday May 16 – 7pm
David Usui, Director
James “Ooker” Eskridge, Tangier Island mayor
Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim, Yale Forum on Religion & Ecology
Moderated by J. English Cook & Alec Turnbull, Climate Film Festival
Sunday May 17 – 3pm
David Usui, Director
Elizabeth Rao, Editor
Moderated by Nelson Walker, Maysles Documentary Center
Tickets are on sale now! Been Here Stay Here opens Friday, May 15 at Quad Cinema for a one-week theatrical run.
Opening Weekend includes special post-screening Q&As.
Friday May 15 – 7:00pm
Q&A with:
David Usui, director
James “Ooker” Eskridge, Tangier Island Mayor
Moderated by:
Duy Linh Tu, Academic Dean & Professor, Columbia Journalism School
Saturday May 16 – 7:00pm
Q&A with:
David Usui, director
James “Ooker” Eskridge, Tangier Island mayor
Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim, Yale Forum on Religion & Ecology
Moderated by J. English Cook & Alec Turnbull, Climate Film Festival
Sunday May 17 – 3:00pm
Q&A with:
David Usui, director
James “Ooker” Eskridge, Tangier Island mayor
Moderated by:
Nelson Walker, Maysles Documentary Center
Link for tickets in bio
Hope to see you there!
Excited to share that Been Here Stay Here will have its NYC theatrical premiere at Quad Cinema starting May 15.
The film will run for a full week, with screenings each day and Q&As throughout the run. This one feels especially meaningful. We’ve spent the past year bringing the film to small towns across the Chesapeake Bay, often in places where stories like this don’t usually land.
Same film, different room.
Hope you’ll join us.
Heading down to Shenandoah University for a screening of In Transit. Join us this Thursday, April 16 – 7pm. Director @davidusui and casting director @marthawollner with be there for a post-screening Q&A
In celebration of Jeff’s birthday, welcome to Episode 2 of the short doc series about the album ‘Slow Magic, 1977-1978.’ These long lost recordings are a window into the secret musical life of the Dude aka Jeff Bridges.
This latest episode dives into the Wednesday Night Jam, a weekly no-holds barred get together in Culver City, California, where Jeff, friends and strangers would fully stretch out, musically-speaking.
As Sam Sweet says in his liner notes:
Attendees were invited to participate in spontaneous music making. Steve Baim’s rules were simple: no songs, no blues, no preparation. Those who couldn’t sing were encouraged to sing. Musicians who could play were encouraged to take up instruments they had never tried.
This doc series is compliments of filmmakers Isaac Gale, Paul Lovelace, and Ben Wu (the team behind the acclaimed 2025 documentary, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted). Stay tuned for Episode 3 dropping later this month.
The album ‘Slow Magic, 1977-1978’ is available on LP, CD & Digital.
Link in bio.
In celebration of Jeff’s birthday, welcome to Episode 2 of the short doc series about the album ‘Slow Magic, 1977-1978.’ These long lost recordings are a window into the secret musical life of the Dude aka Jeff Bridges.
This latest episode dives into the Wednesday Night Jam, a weekly no-holds barred get together in Culver City, California, where Jeff, friends and strangers would fully stretch out, musically-speaking.
As Sam Sweet says in his liner notes:
Attendees were invited to participate in spontaneous music making. Steve Baim’s rules were simple: no songs, no blues, no preparation. Those who couldn’t sing were encouraged to sing. Musicians who could play were encouraged to take up instruments they had never tried.
This doc series is compliments of filmmakers Isaac Gale, Paul Lovelace, and Ben Wu (the team behind the acclaimed 2025 documentary, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted). Stay tuned for Episode 3 dropping later this month.
The album ‘Slow Magic, 1977-1978’ is available on LP, CD & Digital
Link in bio
We can't solve a problem we don't understand.
In the weeks following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery large street protests across the country are bringing sweeping changes to police practices and accountability. Protesters gathered in all 50 states in the largest demonstrations since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1968.
Musical performance by
@resistancerevivalchorus
We made In Transit avail to stream for free! The feature doc we made with great friends Lynn True, Nelson Walker, and the great Al Maysles, features the stories of the people on board Amtrak’s Empire Builder, running from Chicago to the Pacific NW. It’s a film about how people can connect with one another, and given our present troubles, we hope it can serve as a reminder that we’re all in this together. Link in bio!
