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Artists in Residence: Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald

  • Thursday, Jul 16

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Artists in Residence: Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald

90 m. Pisie Hochheim/Tony Oswald. Independent. Rated NR.

Join the JBFC’s current Artists-in-Residence Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald for a screening of their previous short films and a sneak peek of their first feature film—Newville, as featured in Variety. Followed by a community discussion. This is a FREE ticketed event open to the public.

SHORTS PROGRAM:

GREAT LIGHT
The matriarch of a rural Kentucky family takes issue with her daughter’s boyfriend at a gathering to view the total solar eclipse, forcing her to confront her own mysterious past.

Awards & Festivals
Jim Cummings’ Shorts to Feature Lab — 2018
New Hampshire Film Festival — Jury Award, Live Action 2018
Hammer to Nail — Winner, Fall 2017

HANDHELD
A forgotten handheld camera disrupts the chaotic bedtime routine of a single mother and her young son.

Awards & Festivals
Best of the Month — Short of the Week
Vimeo Staff Pick
Hammer to Nail Shorts Competition — Winner, Fall 2019

CYCLES
A single mom from rural Kentucky travels to San Diego to sell her eggs in order to support her two kids, but must grapple with the effect the process has on her body and mind.

Awards & Festivals
New Hampshire Film Festival — Winner, Jury Prize, Best Short Documentary 2024
Short of the Week — Official Selection 2025

UPCOMING FEATURE:
Newville chronicles the week-long reunion of ten siblings, aged 64 to 83, as they return to their decaying childhood home to decide whether to keep or sell it. Together in Newville for the first time in 35 years, they reckon with how ten different states, faiths, media diets, and economic realities have shaped who they’ve become. Despite good humor, the eccentric family’s tenuous bonds are tested when old hierarchies resurface, private grievances turn public, and a single vote becomes a proxy war for everything unsaid.
Find out more about their current project here.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Q&A with JBFC Artists in Residence Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald

Q&A with JBFC Artists in Residence Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald

Thursday, Jul. 16 2026, 2:00

  • Pisie Hochheim (Director, Editor) is a filmmaker and editor in Nashville, TN. She edited the Peabody and Independent Spirit Award-nominated HBO series Nuclear Family by Ry Russo-Young, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival. She has worked on projects by Lana Wilson, Liz Garbus, and Marnie Ellen Hertzler with credits across Hulu, Netflix, and HBO. Her short films, made with her partner Tony Oswald, have screened at film festivals around the world, and their short documentary Cycles won Best Editing at Ouray International Film Festival and Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at New Hampshire Film Festival.
  • Tony Oswald (Director, Editor) is a filmmaker and editor with 18 years of experience in television and feature films. With his wife and creative partner Pisie Hochheim, he has directed four shorts, including the Vimeo Staff Pick Handheld. Their feature script Blind Hog was selected for the New Orleans Film Festival’s South Pitch (2025). They developed and co-edited the upcoming documentary Kinfolk, executive produced by Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst. Their feature debut Newville won “Most Promising U.S. Project” and a Jacob Burns Film Center residency at Ji.hlava IDFF, and was featured in Variety.

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