Veracity: We All Shine On, 2010

Super 16mm/16mm/Hi 8mm/Mini Dv/HDV to DVCam
Sound, Color, 25.14

Kali Heitholt’s father, Kent, was murdered in 2001. Now Kali has to cope with the loss in the mediated world of the victim, while she struggles to hold on to the memories she has of her father.

Veracity: We All Shine On is a film that deals with my own personal history, and the history of my father, Kent Heitholt, was murdered in 2001. The film was developed to critique the media and how they treat murder victims and their families, with its constant reporting and questionable ethics. I struggled at first trying to decide how to process this information into a film, eventually settling on the idea of re-mediating the story by using the device of a television investigative news program with myself as the reporter. This way I was able to become the author of my family’s story, while exposing the insensitivities and carelessness of the media. Within the film we also get glimpses of my father as I tell the stories of events that touched me deeply as a kid.  The film is a critique, homage, an exploration, a catharsis, a portrait and a very human story.  My story…reclaimed.

Director/Editor - Kali Heitholt

Kali Heitholt - Callie Munson

Anne Wells - Kali Heitholt

Interviewees - Mark Koch, Jessica Crews

Assistant Directors - Julia Zinn, Grant Richards-Jones

Camera and Graphics - Exal Iraheta

Second Camera - Jerzy Rose

Sound Composer/Design - Stefen Robinson

Special Thanks

• Frédéric Moffet
• Shellie Fleming
• Danièle Wilmouth
• Thomas Comerford
• Tatsu Aoki
• Deborah Evangelista
• Bill & Do Heitholt
• Greg Cerulo
• Eric Petitti
• Dan Holmes
• Kent Lambert
• Paul Richter
• Michele Mahoney
• Meghan Arthur

Music - John Lennon Instant Karma, Apple Records.

In Memory of my dad, Kent W. Heitholt, 1953 - 2001

For my mom, Deborah Evangelista.