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Some boot stompin, good old fashioned southern (oregon) fun celebrating @trashbabyfilm in Ashland last week with my favorite humans 🍒 thank you @ashlandfilm for all the hometown love and the most incredible send off after our film’s year long festival run! It was everything we could have dreamed up, and then some ❤️

#trashbaby #indiefilm #pnwfilmmaker #ashlandfilm #35mm

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With a few days between us and Trash Baby’s final festival screening, I can’t stop thinking about how lucky we are that this little indie got to live such a big life on the festival circuit.

After the script was named an Academy Nicholl semi-finalist, Trash Baby went on to celebrate its world premiere at SXSW, and from there built up a festival rap sheet that was bigger and badder than we ever could have dreamed.

After taking home an Industry Choice Award, Audience Choice Award, Best Actress Award, and four Best Narrative Feature wins, getting to finish our festival run in my hometown where it all began, with three back-to-back sold-out shows at the very theater where I first fell in love with cinema as a child… Felt poetically perfect.

And as if that wasn’t enough, to walk away from our last festival with a fifth and final Best Narrative Feature win… I don’t know if I’ll ever have the words for that.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who made this experience what it was. Thank you to the cast and crew who rallied behind Trash Baby when it was still just a delusional dream, and to everyone who took a chance on a trailer park kid with no money or name that could easily have been written off as a bad bet.

Thank you to everyone who watched it, programmed it, championed it, bought a ticket, wrote a review, or cheered for us along the way. A supportive community is the only way indie films happen anymore, and we really fucking did that.

⭐️ SXSW
World Premiere ⭐️ Portland Panorama
Best Narrative Feature + Audience Choice ⭐️ Dances With Films
Industry Choice Award ⭐️ Indie Street Film Festival
Official Selection ⭐️ Local Sightings
Best Narrative Feature ⭐️ Carmel International Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature + Best Actress ⭐️ Portland Film Festival
Official Selection ⭐️ Twin Cities Film Fest
Official Selection ⭐️ Eastern Oregon Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature ⭐️ Phoenix Film Festival
Official Selection ⭐️ Ashland Independent Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature

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And just like that, Trash Baby wins Best Narrative Feature at the 25th anniversary of the Ashland Independent Film Festival.

Join us tonight for our final screening at the @varsity.theatre, as we say goodbye to what has been the most magical festival run.

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✨ Huge thanks to the @thenineshotel Event & Sales department for inviting me to host your holiday party!

This ended up being a surprise for their team and it was so fun to see everyone’s faces when they realized what they were getting to do!

It was such a joy to share the art of wreath-making with all of you! Everyone’s turned out amazing!

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We are… Lucky little assholes. Thank you @eofilmfest for bestowing Trash Baby with the honorary title of Best Narrative Feature. I didn’t think we could have loved our Eastern Oregon experience more.

Also, big congrats to @kenziebruce_photo for taking home Best Documentary with Firebreak, the win is beyond deserved.

#oregonfilm #independent #trashbaby

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Trash Baby hit the big screen twice in 24 hours - raising hell on both sides of the map this weekend ❤️‍🔥

Thank you to @eofilmfest for creating such an artist-oriented festival (and for giving me an excuse to hang with the homies) and to @twincitiesfilmfest for taking such good care of our very own @eestherharrison who held it down in Minneapolis for their sweet sixteen celebration.

East coast to west coast, we had an absolute time. Forever grateful to everyone who came out to support and celebrate independent films xx

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Cheers to the @pdxpanorama Team!

Our Board, Staff and Volunteers make it all possible - and we have fun doing it! Swipe through for an epic photobomb by @sparkingcreativity.art 😂😎

Thank you again @diageo @voyseypdx and @loyallegionoregon for hosting us last night!

#pdxpanorama #pdxevents #pdxfilm @oregonfilm #sepdx

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Today is Fayte’s 32nd bday. I can’t believe how fast time has flown by, but in the moment, she always seems to have the power to slow it down. In case you can’t tell, I LOVE MY WIFE. @itsyourf8

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Married three years today to the most wonderful, radiant person I’ve ever known.

Not sure what I did to deserve her, but I’m not questioning it either.

❤️❤️❤️

Photos by the best man @jerobinson89

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Thanks for the wild ride, Austin…❤️‍🔥

What a gift it was reuniting with my second family and seeing a film we poured our blood, sweat and tears into shared on a world’s stage at @sxsw. There are no words to describe the joy and pride I’ve felt this past week from this experience. Still pinching myself 🥲

@trashbabyfilm @rykofilms @oregonfilm @prosperportland #sxsw #madeinoregon

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wow. just wow.

i got to spend the week in austin with some of my favorite people celebrating art we made together. we showed up in spaces ive only dreamed of, and trust me when I say this is only the beginning. i honestly have no words for the profound impact @trashbabyfilm has had on my life and on the lives of everyone who’s been so lucky to cross paths. the amount of positive feedback we received while at sxsw was just a confirmation of what we all knew while making it. this film is something special. we could feel it in the air two years ago in a hot gravel lot, and we could feel it in every room we came together in here. these people, these places, this movie. words cannot describe the adoration and gratitude i hold for all of it. the world needs this movie right now. something so familiar yet new. something so heartbreaking yet inspiring. jacy you wrote a masterpiece and it was just so easy (and so incredibly difficult) to run with it. i know theres still much work to be done, but god damn to live a life making art like this has always been the dream. i love these people so much. i love this movie so much. i know all of you are going to love it all just as much as we do. there will never be enough words strung together in the right way to truly describe the magic this holds. these people are family, this movie is a bright light in our currently dim future. its hope, its heartbreak, its love, its hatred, its being stuck, and then being so incredibly free. and damn it really did just taste that much sweeter when we proved them wrong.

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