Plays in Shorts Program: Field Notes
Friday, June 13
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

Into the Dark

Director

Fiona Otway

Editor

Consulting Editor

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor

Cinematographer

Additional Cinematography

Music

Antonin Fajt, itsnotyouitsme, Fiona Otway

Sound

Narration

Contact

Every summer for over a decade, artist Pete Mauney ventures into the middle of nowhere, alone, in the dead of night. Where most see only desolate darkness, he finds peace and inspiration. Through patient observation, the landscape slowly comes alive, sparkling with fireflies. Armed with cameras and tripods, Pete performs his ritual: setting up, syncing shutters, and calibrating timelapses in pursuit of an elusive ideal. But in this process, he confronts everything beyond his control—and that’s where the magic happens.

Director, Into the Dark

Fiona Otway is a filmmaker crafting nuanced, emotionally resonant stories about our potential to shape the world we live in. A big believer in the power of compassion and radical inclusivity, her work fundamentally seeks to understand how we can spark transformational change in ourselves and others. At the heart of this exploration is deep curiosity. How are assumptions formed, spread, hardened, erased, transmuted, unraveled? How do we learn to ask more courageous, humble, dynamic, catalytic questions? As an editor for over 25 years, Fiona Otway’s work has received numerous awards, including the ‘Best Editing’ award and the ‘Grand Jury Prize’ from Sundance Film Festival, a DuPont Award, a Grierson Award, an International Federation of Film Critics award, nominations for Cinema Eye Honors, Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards, and three Academy Award nominations.