DEAR ANI

BEST SHORT DOC - Hot Docs | BEST LONG SHORT - Topanga Film Fest | BEST REGIONAL SHORT DOC - New Hampshire Film Fest | BEST SHORT DOC - Culver City Film Fest | AUDIENCE AWARD - Centre Film Fest | BEST SHORT DOC - Atlanta Docufest Mental Health • Storytelling • Art • Friendship Date of Completion: 2022 | Run Time: 35 minutes​​ | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director & Producer: Micah Levin | Stories, Music & Artwork: Keith Wasserman In 1995, an aspiring artist and college sophomore, took a semester off to live in a cabin in Northern Maine. He sat by the edge of a lake and asked the universe to send him a “story worth telling”. Two months later, he was admitted to Bellevue Hospital, while searching for Ani DiFranco. Was this a vision quest? A mental health issue? Was this all an elaborate art project? For thirty years Keith Wasserman has made and delivered elaborate art mail packages - all in the hopes of befriending his muse. DEAR ANI explores wha