Sasha Waters Freyer is a filmmaker, mother, teacher, reader, amateur dressmaker, crossword puzzle enthusiast and poll worker for Johnson County. Her experimental and documentary films have featured dominatrixes, coal miners, artists, children, and a penguin, but not necessarily in that order. Writing about her most recently competed doc, This American Gothic, the Santa Fe New Mexican declared "In the spirit of documentary filmmaker Errol Morris who gave us Gates of Heaven in 1978 comes This American Gothic. Like Morris, Waters Freyer has captured with humor, local dialogue, and credible references the persona of small-town America."

Waters Freyer's new documentary work-in-progress Chekhov for Children to screen at the IFP Spotlight on Documentaries on Tues. 9/22 @ 1:30pm, Theater 2, F.I.T.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

-- Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher & literary theorist.