Locally Produced Movie Premieres in Toledo September 4

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A feature length fantasy documentary, “Gateways to Faerie” will show at Port Station One (496 NE Bus. 20) Saturday, September 4 at 7:30 p.m. The screening is a benefit for Lincoln County Food Share with a $5 suggested donation or a non-perishable food item. The film was made by Andy Corwin and Toledo-area artists John Crawford and Bridget Wolfe. Crawford and Wolfe own Fairy Woodland near Toledo, where he produces fairy houses. Wolfe is a storyteller and writer of mystical tales that accompany each house Crawford builds. The family-friendly film explores myths and legends about faeries, and how they can teach a greater appreciation for the natural and spiritual worlds.

John Crawford began as a puppeteer at age 10, and has worked professionally in the arts and entertainment industry most of his life, designing and constructing fantastical creatures and miniature habitats for stage, television, commercials, and feature motion pictures. His work has won numerous awards including one from the Cannes Film Festival for Special Effects. Crawford has been a professional puppeteer, a lighting designer, a scenic artist, and an arts advocate. He was technical director and teacher of puppetry and technical theater at New York University and principal public events manager for the University of California Los Angeles campus.

Bridget Wolfe is a teacher, writer, myth keeper, and storyteller. She has spent almost 30 years studying shamanism, and has blended the teachings of medicine wheels and sacred ritual with her more formal education – she has earned MA degrees in English and Clinical Psychology – to create ceremonial retreats and rites of passage for groups in the U.S., England and Ireland. In her collaboration with Crawford, she has written fairy tale vignettes for more than 500 of his fairy house sculptures; her first book, The Thirteenth Moon: Fairies in the Doorway, is in process.

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