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Synopsis

In FINDING GROOVOPOLIS, Wil Kristin seeks fatherly advice through the lens of GROOVOPOLIS, a never-produced comedic screenplay written by his late dad. While coming to terms with his dad’s death, Kristin discovered the original script for GROOVOPOLIS, which follows a music programmer who falls overboard at a work party, encounters a group of wild, dancing island inhabitants, and inadvertently records their music before being rescued and spreading the sounds as an antidote to dull and monotonous consumer culture. Elements of GROOVOPOLIS eerily show up in and influence Kristin’s own life, and the unusual collaboration yields an excavation of family, legacy, and navigating adulthood.

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Press

• ‘Finding Groovopolis’ Documentary Film Sets Release Date (VIMooZ, April 2025)

• A La Grande old time: The Eastern Oregon Film Festival keeps on truckin’ (Oregon ArtsWatch, October 2023)

• The Tomorrow Theater finally dawns: PAM CUT’s Eastside venue announces initial programming (Oregon ArtsWatch, October 2023)

• PAM CUT announces Tomorrow Theater’s opening programming (PAM CUT, October 2023)

• Now Playing—PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater (Portland Monthly, October 2023)

• Finding Groovopolis wins ‘Best Documentary’ at the 2023 Oregon Independent Film Festival (OIFF, September 2023)

• Eastern Oregon Film Festival releases 2023 ‘Trailer of Trailers’ featuring Finding Groovopolis (EOFF, September 2023)

• Live Q & A with Director Wil Kristin at the 2023 Klamath Independent Film Festival (KIFF, September 2023)

• Bonus Q & A with Director Wil Kristin for online viewers at the 2023 Klamath Independent Film Festival (KIFF, September 2023)

• Director Wil Kristin featured at Media Institute for Social Change’s Dinner with a Local Filmmaker (MISC/Citizen, November 2017)

• A Filmmaker Sets Out to Bring His Late Father’s Screenplay to Life in ‘Finding Groovopolis’ (IndieWire, June 2015)

• Original Finding Groovooplis crowdfunding campaign (Kickstarter, May 2015)