The premier edition of Coachella Magazine features a wonderful article by publisher Jorge Perezchica based on conversations he had with “A Place of Truth” director Barrett Rudich during the 2014 American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs, California.
Article can be seen here
NBC10’s Vai Sikahema sat down with director Barrett Rudich and Pennsylvania native Abi Mott to talk about “A Place Of Truth” and its screening at the New Hope Film Festival.
” [Director Barrett Rudich] What I’ve been most impressed with in showing the film to very different sets of audiences is that the appeal (while clearly strong with other Millennials) actually reaches across many age categories – often for different but sometimes the same reasons.”
“…His Baltimore connections show up in small ways in the film. Rudich uses Wye Oak’s song “I Don’t Feel Young” in an intimate scene between Mott and her friend Ashley.
‘A Place of Truth,’ which won the Audience Award for best feature film at the Northwest Filmmakers Festival, is Rudich’s first feature, and he said he will consider Baltimore as a location or at least one of the locations for his next big project.”
“What’s your dream job? Think about that for a minute, and then ask yourself another question: What would you be willing to put on the line to make that dream a reality? The Signal’s Aaron Henkin interviews Barrett Rudich, whose documentary film, A Place of Truth, tells the story of a young woman who has definitive answers to both these questions. Her name is Abi Mott, and she makes her living as a poet.” —WYPR Baltimore
“Abi Mott sat calmly and typed, as if a guy wasn’t sitting atop a throne 6 feet away and heckling passers-by on the Colisee floor.
‘Look at her,’ filmmaker Barrett Rudich said. In an aisle of the Androscoggin Business to Business Trade Show, Mott composed poetry.
The 23-year-old woman from Lancaster, Pa. sat in a folding chair behind a TV tray. On it sat a stack of blank white paper and a manual Remington typewriter.
Neither the steady stream of trade show participants strolling past nor the silliness behind her — as comedian-filmmaker Michael Miclon sold tickets to this weekend’s Emerge Film Festival — seemed to disturb her.
‘She gets in a zone,’ said Rudich, who first met Mott on a sidewalk in Portland, Ore. ‘I don’t know how she does it.’ …
(Full article and photos here)
Photo courtesy of Sun Journal
“Among the 40 films to be shown at this weekend’s Emerge Film Festival in Lewiston is A Place of Truth, a 65-minute documentary about 21-year-old “street poet” Abi Mott, who travels around the country as an unconventional busker, writing poems on the spot for strangers. We caught up with director Barrett Rudich via email to find out more about the film; he and Mott will both be present at Saturday’s screening.”…
“Abi Mott’s business model is simple. Abi is from Lancaster originally but now lives in Denver, CO. After high school she met a man in San Francisco who typed poems for people on the street, and then she took up the craft herself. She’s traveled across the country and set up a small table, a typewriter and a sign with her simple business model printed in big letters”… (full story and photos)
Lancaster New Era’s Entertainment section features full page story about the making of “A Place of Truth.”
“Barrett Rudich was walking down the street by Powell’s Books in Portland, Ore., on Sept. 10, 2011 when he saw a young woman sitting in a chair on the sidewalk, perched in front of a small typewriter. Abi Mott, who grew up in Lancaster, was busking — a common enough practice in larger cities — but she wasn’t singing or playing an instrument on the street. She was writing poetry”…
As reported by Marc Mohan on Nov 19th in The Oregonian and OregonLive:
“The 40th edition of the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival comes to a close, and the Northwest Film Center has tabulated all those little slips of paper they handed out before every screening.
The ‘smart® audience award’ (as in, sponsored by smart car) for Best Feature goes to ‘A Place of Truth,’ Barrett Rudich’s documentary about itinerant, typewriter-toting poet Abi Mott, which our critic named as his favorite film in the festival.”
Film critic Jamie S. Rich writing on OregonLive about his top picks at the upcoming Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival: “My favorite of the films I’ve seen, however, is Barrett Rudich’s “A Place of Truth.” The director follows street poet Abigail Mott around the country. The charming author earns her way honing her craft, buying time while she searches for meaning and honest connections. If Mott comes to Portland, I have a ten-spot waiting to have her write a verse on the topic of “spirits.” Or perhaps, more appropriately, “movies.” ”
