THE TIMES WE WERE LIVING IN
DIRECTORS
Asali Echols
Montgomery Samuel Thomas
GENRES
Children
Film Noir
RUN TIME
13 minutes
COUNTRY
United States
Synopsis
What’s black and white and dead all over?
Something is rotten in Booneville. The Mayor turns up dead, and Detective Humphrey Trowell is uncovering a thicker and thicker web of lies. Will anyone come out of this wreckage alive?
Students: Thomas Farm Films Summer Camp
Asali Echols, Montgomery Samuel Thomas
ASALI ECHOLS is a Bay Area filmmaker and film editor, whose work has screened in festivals across the country and worldwide. Her directing credits include the narrative short Fast & New (2019), the animated documentary The Violin Upstairs (2019) and the award-winning short documentary Lion on the Mat (2021). She enjoys finding visual intersections between narrative, documentary and animation, and telling stories about people who step outside boxes.
In addition to the practice of filmmaking, Asali is a dedicated cinema educator. She has taught undergraduate film production at San Francisco State University, and taught summer filmmaking workshops for youth. She holds a BA in Film Studies from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University.