Accept & Embrace
dir. Cameron Geeding
2022
Running time: 21 min.
Film
In a Central Florida retirement park, the residents of Buttonwood Bay navigate tropical storms and an ever-aging population as they act in defiance of what seems to always linger over them: death. Here lives Noreen and her sister Sharon as they spend the remainder of their idyllic lives in this tight-knit community of merriment. Accept & Embrace demonstrates the process of transitioning from an observational to reflexive style as the filmmaker is forced to confront his relation to the film’s central participant, his grandmother, and how the nature of his photography might intrude on this community of wisdom and embracement.
Cameron Geeding
Raised in Raytown, Missouri, Cameron Geeding is a student of the Murray Center with a particular interest in post-production. He studies Documentary Journalism at Mizzou and is graduating in the spring of 2022. During his time as a student, Geeding was a pre-screener for the International Documentary Association. Geeding served as the editor for Mark Power’s short film Mavericks and screened an early cut of his own film, Accept & Embrace, at the Museum of Moving Image in New York City. Following graduation, he hopes to find opportunities to further his interest in the process of post-production and collaborative filmmaking.