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Award winning playwright and filmmaker, Laurel Hunter produces outstanding work for stage, screen, and print publications.
After her second film, The Highway Home, writer, producer, and director Laurel Hunter establishes herself as an original voice in the independent film industry. Filmed in and around Boulder, Colorado, The Highway Home follows Laurel Hunter’s striking debut feature, Something Better, with the tale of a young girl who escapes the confines of her depressing hometown only to fall in with a drug dealer boyfriend. Laurel Hunter weaves an intricate story through The Highway Home, as the heroine avoids succumbing to prostitution after her boyfriend’s arrest and continues her soul-searching journey for a new home in the daunting American landscape. In The Highway Home, Laurel Hunter provides talented stage and television actress Erika Frost with her feature film debut, and collaborates with seasoned photographer and cinematographer Tarina Reed. Under the stewardship of San Francisco-based Blu Fly Productions, Laurel Hunter’s The Highway Home benefits from its roster of experienced and knowledgeable film professionals. Since the 2008 debut of The Highway Home, Laurel Hunter has received a variety of honors for her production. An official selection of the 2008 California Independent Film Festival, the 2008 Berkeley Video and Film Festival, and the 2008 LA Femme Film Festival, The Highway Home generates continued recognition for Laurel Hunter and her impressive body of work in film, theater, and fiction. In addition, Laurel Hunter and The Highway Home won the Peace Reel Special Recognition Award at the 2008 Berkeley Video and Film Festival. Laurel Hunter lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has two film projects and several literary projects in the works.
Laurel Hunter's Affiliations
Laurel Hunter's Publications
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Man for a Day, New Woman Magazine
December, 1998
Personal essay.
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Passenger, Berkeley Fiction Review
January, 1998
Short Fiction
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Essay on Solar Wind Power, Urban Action Magazine
January, 1997
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