After 15 years in the conventional funeral industry, a passionate mortician works to create Tennessee’s first natural burial ground. Bury Me at Taylor Hollow recounts his personal journey from mortuary traditionalist to global-thinking environmentalist as he seeks a better place and way for his community to be laid to rest.
Screening on Saturday, March 8 at 11am
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Filmmaker: Orion Pahl
Running Time: 57 mins
Language: English with Open Captions
Type: Invited Feature
Orion Pahl is a PBS Wyncote Fellow and an award-winning documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago and interned at Kartemquin Films. His work focuses on humans and their relationship to self, family, work, place, death, and art. Bury Me at Taylor Hollow is his latest feature-length film; it won the jury and audience award at the Nashville Film Festival and was broadcasted nationwide on PBS. @orionpahl
