FILM & VIDEO

Swamp Cabbage. Screening with filmmakers Hayley Downs and Julie Lara Kahn.

Set in Central Florida, Swamp Cabbage: A Dark & Sweaty Survival Guide is Hayley Downs’ personal story of wild boar hunting, gun toting, and hard drinking. The film weaves Hayley’s 10 year+ self-filmed story of love, addiction, illness, death and redemption. It features verité sequences of Florida Crackers as they trap alligators, gig frogs, and hunt wild boar, continuing to live in close partnership with the land despite environmental and cultural devastation from out-of-control development and suburban sprawl.

Hayley Downs is a documentary filmmaker, producer and fundraising/outreach consultant. She produced Hidden Battles, a documentary about the psychological effects of killing on soldiers. Julie Lara Kahn is a filmmaker, producer and visual artist currently affiliated with the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, Calif. She has worked as a disc jockey in Japan, an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, an A&R administrator at Columbia Records, and a freelance producer for Annie Leibovitz.