Free screening of ‘Drawing The Tiger’ by West Seattle filmaker Amy Benson

WHERE: West Seattle’s Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
WHEN: Saturday, March 26th, 2016, 4 pm-6 pm (Q&A discussion following)

Shot over seven years, Drawing The Tiger takes a sweeping view of one Nepalese family’s struggle to survive off of subsistence farming. Eat, pay their debts, stay alive—that’s their day-to-day reality. But when their bright daughter receives a scholarship to study in Kathmandu, the family’s prospects suddenly improve by leaps and bounds overnight. She promises to return and free her family from their hand-to-mouth existence. But when she doesn’t come home, the family is forced to face their fate. Is their future set in stone or sand; is it solid or ever-shifting? What is the price of this golden opportunity?

Drawing the Tiger received the best feature award at the local sightings film festival at the Northwest Film Forum and the UNICEF award at Film South Asia in Kathmandu, Nepal. It premiered at the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival in April, 2015 and has been in over 25 festivals worldwide so far.