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"Lone Man's Land" -- A Film Depicting the Difficult Lives of Ranch Families in Oklahoma's Panhandle

Aired on Wednesday, October 14th.

On this edition of ST, we learn about the first-ever Tulsa American Film Festival, which, per its website, "showcases independent feature and short films from across the U.S., highlighting Native American films, Oklahoma-based filmmakers, local student short films, a classic Oklahoma-centric film retrospective in addition to panels and parties." The festival happens later this week, from the 15th through the 18th, with screenings at the Circle Cinema and other events at the Woody Guthrie Center and the Gilcrease Museum. One of our guests is Colleen Thurston, the director of programming for this festival. Our other guest is the Oklahoma-based journalist Sheilah Bright, who's also the co-writer and co-director of one of the works to be shown at the Tulsa American Film Festival. Bright's film, "Lone Man’s Land," is a one-hour documentary feature that profiles the hard lives, changing times, and vexing issues that are confronted today by ranch families living in and around Kenton, Oklahoma (population 20). "Lone Man's Land" will be shown at the Circle tomorrow night, Thursday the 15th, at 6pm. (You can view a trailer for the film here.) Also on our show, commentator Barry Friedman offers a personal essay entitled "103 Miles Between Community Colleges."

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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