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About Me

The parent-child relationship is emotionally charged from the moment a person is born. But it becomes especially complex when your single parent is mentally unstable, as was the case for filmmaker Tara Wray.In her first film, Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie's psychotic breakdown five years earlier. She finds a parent still chasing her demons, both real and imagined, struggling to make a career for herself as an abstract artist and searching for the Geodetic Center of the United States, the finding of which, Evie says, will bring about world peace.When Tara takes it upon herself to help in her mother's search, it sets into motion a surprising chain of events that may just rescue Evie from a catastrophic fate and help Tara reconcile with her mother on different terms.Visit the official MANHATTAN, KANSAS film site.

My Interests

Vermont.

I'd like to meet:

People who love documentaries and independent filmmakers from all over the world.

Music:

Sparrow (aka Jason Zumpano, the official music of MANHATTAN, KANSAS)

Books:

Land-Grant College Review

My Blog

http://www.youtube.com/ManhattanKansas

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Posted by Manhattan, Kansas on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:58:00 PST

Watch the first 15 min of MANHATTAN, KANSAS

Head over to Documentary Educational Resources, the film's educational distributor, for info on how you can purchase a copy of MANHATTAN, KANSAS.And while you're there, take a seat and watch the firs...
Posted by Manhattan, Kansas on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:51:00 PST

Radio interview with Tara Wray

I sat down with journalist Tania Ketenjian prior to screening MANHATTAN, KANSAS at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival earlier this month. Tania is host and producer of her own weekly program...
Posted by Manhattan, Kansas on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:20:00 PST

Podcast with Director Tara Wray

In preparation for the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, I recently chatted with David Dombrosky, Contemporary Arts Manager for the Southern Arts Federation about MANHATTAN, KANSAS.Take...
Posted by Manhattan, Kansas on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:58:00 PST

Evie Wray Art

Those of you that have seen MANHATTAN, KANSAS know that my mom is a talented and prolific watercolorist. Her paintings are available through her website: www.eviewrayartist.com, and will also be on s...
Posted by Manhattan, Kansas on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:03:00 PST