{"id":732,"date":"2021-09-04T19:38:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imefilmfest.com\/international-migration-environmental-film-festival\/?page_id=732"},"modified":"2021-09-04T19:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:38:36","slug":"imeff-2021-official-selection-plants-pollinators-prayers-by-randy-caspersen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imefilmfest.com\/international-migration-&-environmental-film-festival\/imeff-2021-official-selection-plants-pollinators-prayers-by-randy-caspersen\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants, Pollinators &#038; Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/imefilmfest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Plants-Pollinators-Prayers-poster.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-375\" width=\"627\" height=\"418\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Directed by Randy Caspersen<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Runtime- 40:00<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by the decline of monarch butterflies in the Midwestern prairie, a gardener, educator, and pastor transform a rural church\u2019s backyard into a sanctuary for pollinating animals, an educational garden for the community, and a sacred space for spiritual contemplation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director Biography &#8211;&nbsp;Randy Caspersen<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/ff-storage-p01\/press_kits\/headshots\/001\/257\/383\/original\/a3ae7b5ce9-headshot.jpg?1561208561\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Randy Caspersen is a filmmaker whose short films and videos, which often deal with themes of queerness and gender, have received international distribution and have played in over seventy-five film festivals on five different continents. His recently completed media projects include award-winning feature-length documentary, Go Penguins!, about a local theatre troupe that helps children and young adults with disabilities play the lead roles in a Broadway-style musical. In addition to recently completing documentary Plants, Pollinators &amp; Prayers about the creation of a local butterfly habitat, he is working on an autobiographical film about his maternal grandmother and a narrative short charting a gay man\u2019s evolution through the point-of-view of a beloved toy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caspersen is an Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University in the Department of Communication where he teaches television &amp; video production and narrative screenwriting. He has a BFA in Film &amp; Video from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA in Film &amp; Video Production from Columbia College Chicago. 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