PRESENT TIME: journal of a country monastery
Berkeley, California | Film Feature
Documentary, History
PRESENT TIME interweaves a 70-year historical portrait of a monastery with an intimate chronicle of the everyday lives of monks. The final 15 years of the monastery are followed over five seasons, as monks continue to die and their community disappears.
PRESENT TIME: journal of a country monastery
Berkeley, California | Film Feature
Documentary, History
2 Campaigns | California, United States
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PRESENT TIME interweaves a 70-year historical portrait of a monastery with an intimate chronicle of the everyday lives of monks. The final 15 years of the monastery are followed over five seasons, as monks continue to die and their community disappears.
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About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Situated deep in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah,
a monastery was established in 1947.
In September, after 70 years, the monastery closed.
In 2002, I began a film at the Huntsville, Utah monastery.
I continued filming until 2017, when it closed.
PRESENT TIME interweaves a 70-year historical portrait of a monastery
with an intimate chronicle of the everyday lives of monks.
The final 15 years of the monastery are followed over five seasons—as monks continue to die and their community disappears.
This will be the first, and last film about life inside the Abbey.
By contributing to the completion of this film project
you will enable us to finish the editing, sound design, sound mix and DCP.
Your tax-deductible donation will allow you to receive a DVD of the film and/or a beautiful, limited-edition, hard-cover book of archive photos from the Utah monastery and other related materials.
Please read more about our campaign and the rewards below.
TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION
Your donation is tax deductible! PRESENT TIME is a fiscally sponsored project of the International Documentary Association (IDA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions in support of PRESENT TIME are payable to IDA and are tax deductible, less the value of any goods or services received, as allowed by law. The value of goods and services being offered is noted under each donation level. If you would like to deduct the entire donation you have the option to simply decline the reward at checkout.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Festivals (submissions, travel, accommodations)
Costs $1,500
Submitting a film to festivals is expensive. If selected, travel and accommodations, even more so.
Sound design
Costs $2,000
Sound design brings to the film all the many and layered sounds of the monastery.
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About This Team
John Slattery is a producer and director living in Berkeley, CA. He began work in television as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, writing and hosting a pilot for a social-issue TV series at the Moroccan National Institute of Television.
While at UCLA he received the Macgowan Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking, the Drown Award for Motion Picture Production as well as the Edgar Brokaw Scholarship in Film Production—and even worked as an assistant to the French actress Isabelle Huppert!
His directing debut “Casablanca Mon Amour” had a special preview screening by the San Francisco Film Society before a world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival. It was highlighted in the New York Times then picked up for broadcast by BBC and has now been invited to over 22 international festivals.
John’s latest feature-length documentary now in post-production has been awarded a LEF Visual Arts Grant a Utah Humanities Grant and was recently selected to be presented at the BAVC 4x10 series. He holds an MFA from the Department of Film and Digital Media at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Situated deep in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah,
a monastery was established in 1947.
In September, after 70 years, the monastery closed.
In 2002, I began a film at the Huntsville, Utah monastery.
I continued filming until 2017, when it closed.
PRESENT TIME interweaves a 70-year historical portrait of a monastery
with an intimate chronicle of the everyday lives of monks.
The final 15 years of the monastery are followed over five seasons—as monks continue to die and their community disappears.
This will be the first, and last film about life inside the Abbey.
By contributing to the completion of this film project
you will enable us to finish the editing, sound design, sound mix and DCP.
Your tax-deductible donation will allow you to receive a DVD of the film and/or a beautiful, limited-edition, hard-cover book of archive photos from the Utah monastery and other related materials.
Please read more about our campaign and the rewards below.
TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION
Your donation is tax deductible! PRESENT TIME is a fiscally sponsored project of the International Documentary Association (IDA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions in support of PRESENT TIME are payable to IDA and are tax deductible, less the value of any goods or services received, as allowed by law. The value of goods and services being offered is noted under each donation level. If you would like to deduct the entire donation you have the option to simply decline the reward at checkout.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Festivals (submissions, travel, accommodations)
Costs $1,500
Submitting a film to festivals is expensive. If selected, travel and accommodations, even more so.
Sound design
Costs $2,000
Sound design brings to the film all the many and layered sounds of the monastery.
Share this update!
About This Team
John Slattery is a producer and director living in Berkeley, CA. He began work in television as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco, writing and hosting a pilot for a social-issue TV series at the Moroccan National Institute of Television.
While at UCLA he received the Macgowan Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking, the Drown Award for Motion Picture Production as well as the Edgar Brokaw Scholarship in Film Production—and even worked as an assistant to the French actress Isabelle Huppert!
His directing debut “Casablanca Mon Amour” had a special preview screening by the San Francisco Film Society before a world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival. It was highlighted in the New York Times then picked up for broadcast by BBC and has now been invited to over 22 international festivals.
John’s latest feature-length documentary now in post-production has been awarded a LEF Visual Arts Grant a Utah Humanities Grant and was recently selected to be presented at the BAVC 4x10 series. He holds an MFA from the Department of Film and Digital Media at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).