"This movie is about me."
The international cast of Bella Vista shares the loneliness and adventure that often comes with being an outsider.
Director Vera Brunner-Sung intentionally cast international students from places such as Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Moracco and Japan, to play the "other outsiders" that help their new instructor Doris find warmth and belonging through the natural walls of displacement.
Bella Vista is a meditation on displacement and adaptation in the contemporary American West.
The Montana-made feature film is successfully circulating international festivals, with the U.S. premier on September 26 at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, Washington.
See more about the film at www.bellavistafilm.com