Plays in Shorts Program: A Reckoning
Friday, June 12
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

for all screenings

A Derailment

Director

Nathan Truesdell

Executive Producer

John Wilson

Producers

Kat Nguyen, Will Lennon

Editor

Nathan Truesdell

Co-Editor

Nathan Truesdell

Composer

Longmont Potion Castle

At 8:55 PM on February 3, 2023, a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Told entirely through found footage and news archive, A DERAILMENT puts you in the center of disaster. As local news coverage and publicly circulated footage unfold in real time, the film reveals not only the immediate catastrophe but the deepening crisis that followed—raising urgent questions about oversight, accountability, and the failures that allowed it to escalate.

Director, A Derailment

Nathan Truesdell is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker whose directorial work includes the award-winning shorts BALLOONFEST, THE WATER SLIDE, THE ART OF MAKING MONEY, IT’S COMING!, WHEN THE LAPD BLOWS UP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, MYSTERY SEEDS, and A DERAILMENT. He was the Camera Department Head and a Cinematographer for the HBO series HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON, and produced and co-DP’ed Jessica Kingdon’s ASCENSION登楼叹. He is currently in production on his debut feature documentary, WATCH THE CIRCUS BURN. Nathan has been nominated for an Academy Award, a PGA Award, an IDA Award, selected for the inaugural “DOC NYC 40 Under 40” list, has worked on six Vimeo Staff Picked films, and won a Cinema Eye Honor for Cinematography.