CAST OF SHADOWS

Wed 9 July | 16:00 | Town Hall Theatre

2025 | Finland | 121’

Cast of Shadows examines how Frances Hubbard Flaherty was the person who made all her husband’s major films (Nanook of the North to Louisiana Story) happen, and how their three daughters, Robert’s brother, and others, played crucial parts in enabling the iconic Robert Flaherty films to be completed. 

In this essay film, filmmaker Sami van Ingen shares his own family stories by using previously unseen archival material, and takes the viewer on an in-depth trip through the history of the Flaherty film-making family opening up the historical landscape of the people who contributed, but have been sidelined by history.

Post-show discussion will follow