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CUFF Screening: Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere

Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere

Sunday, November 23 • 1:30pm
Globe Cinema, 617 8 Ave SW, Calgary
Doors open at 12:30pm
Tickets: $10

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CUFF-portraitWordfest is a proud community partner on the upcoming Alberta premiere of Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, presented by the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF).

The documentary film follows gifted author Poe Ballantine, whose acclaimed memoir of the same name inspired the film, as he leads us through a maze of conspiracy theories and misplaced suspicions, offering insights into the town of Chadron and his own life of wanderlust.

In 2006, Steven Haataja, a brilliant mathematics professor in the isolated community of Chadron, Nebraska, disappears without a trace. His body is discovered three months later, burned and tied to a tree. The cause of death sends the small community reeling with questions.

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About Poe Ballantine and Director Dave Jannetta

Poe Ballantine is a fiction and nonfiction writer known for his novels and essays. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Sun, and Oxford American.

Dave Jannetta is a Philadelphia based filmmaker. Prior to founding his film company, 32-20 Productions, Dave served as personal assistant to Peter Jackson through the North American production of THE LOVELY BONES. He is an alumnus of Werner Herzog’s “Rogue Film School.”

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