Based on a prose poem by M.C. Biegner, When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl tells the startling, unuttered truth about America’s good gray poet. Starting out as an ordinary nine year old girl, Walt is soon catapulted into the world with her senses ablaze. The film mixes drama, dance, puppetry, and oddball humor to portray the world through the eyes of a ‘sensitive kid.’
(2012)
Featuring Natalie Braun, Don Henderson Baker, Brad Boll, Patrick Braun, Lormarev Jones, Gina Kohler, Tom Marriott, Carl Martin, James Morrow, Venson Mathews, Jay O’Berski, Dan Partridge, Chris Vitiello
Based on a prose poem by M.C. Biegner
Adapted, Directed & Edited by Jim Haverkamp
Director of Photography: Alex Maness
Music by Actual Persons Living or Dead, Anders Parker, Brian Weeks
Awards
Honorable Mention, Short Narrative, Athens International Film Festival
Jury’s Choice (1st place), Black Maria Film Festival (national tour)
Most Creative Storytelling, Carrboro Film Festival Carrboro, NC
Best in Festival, Magnolia Film Festival Starkville, MS
Right Stuff award (Best in festival), South Texas Underground Film Festival Corpus Christi, TX
Best Experimental/Animation, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival Morgantown, WV
Publications
The Journal of Short Film Volume 29, The Ohio State University
TriQuarterly #144, Northwestern University
Moving Poems
Screenings
ADF Screendance Festival, Durham, NC
Antimatter Art/Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
Artsfest, Harrisburg, PA
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH
Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta, GA
Black Maria Film Festival (Nationwide tour)
Carrboro Film Festival, Carrboro, NC
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
Experiments in Cinema v. 7.9, Albuquerque, NM
Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC
Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, TN
Landlocked Film Festival, Iowa City, IA
Light Factory Filmmakers’ Showcase, Charlotte, NC
London Underground Film Festival, London, England, UK
Long Island Film Festival, Bay Shore, NY
Magnolia Film Festival, Starkville, MS
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
MIX NYC, New York, NY
Oakland Underground Film Festival, Oakland, CA
Portland Underground Film Festival, Portland, OR
RxSM (Self-Medicated Film Festival), Austin, TX
South Alabama Film Festival, Mobile, AL
South Texas Underground Film Festival, Corpus Christi, TX
SouthSide Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA
Tupelo Film Festival, Tupelo, MS
Twin Rivers Media Festival, Asheville, NC
Visible Verse Festival, Vancouver, BC