PHOTOS TO SEND International Documentary Competition

Winner of the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Golden Gate Award, PHOTOS TO SEND retraces Life magazine photographer Dorothea Lange’s footsteps in County Clare, Ireland, after nearly 50 years, to find that time has stood still in this small, farming community.

American photographer Dorothea Lange is best remembered for her striking photographs of 1930s dustbowl migrant workers that have practically defined documentary photography. In 1954, Life magazine assigned her to cover this rural land of rolling hills and vibrant green foliage and study the people and the land they worked. Years later, moved by the stark beauty of the images, Irish-American filmmaker Dierdre Lynch set out to find those people and landmarks to see how much had changed.

Expecting to find half a century of changes, Lynch was shocked to find the same homes, landscapes and rugged faces that Lange had documented. What follows is a series of stunning imagery matched with interviews with the subjects and their tales of when Lange was with them-some joyful, some painful. Honest, fresh and captivating, PHOTOS TO SEND graciously and brilliantly brings Lange’s photos to life.