A talk with filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll
04 Dec 2015
Finding Purpose, Small and Large
By Kate Jonuska As producer and director of two feature-length documentaries and co-executive producer of the Academy Awardwinning Born Into Brothels: Calcuttas Red Light Kids, Pamela Tanner Boll has always focused her lens on the unknown rather than the famous, the underdogs rather than the powerful.
Scary and Wonderful
Such was the case for Boll in her 20s, when she worked on Wall Street, but the nagging urge toward art never left her. When she had her first child, which she calls the scariest and most wonderful thing Id ever done, she felt a call to return to her art, and began to write and paint.

Prescription for Longevity: Social Connection
Bolls second feature-length film as director and producer, A Small Good Thing, traces many of themes of Who Does She Think She Is? The new film, which won the award for Best Documentary at the 2015 Boston International Film Festival and recently sold out two showings at Boulders Dairy Center for the Arts, explores the unique community of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.
Kate Jonuska (www.katejonuska.com) is a Boulder freelance writer. She writes regularly about the arts and food, and is working on a novel.
A Small Good Thing returns to The Dairys Boedecker Theater on Dec. 6 at 4:30 and 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.thedairy.org. It is available for community showings through www.asmallgoodthingfilm.com. Both Who Does She Think She Is? and Born Into Brothels can be rented on DVD at the Video Station or via Netflix. For a list of Pamela Tanner Bolls other films, visit her website at www.mysticartists.com.