EMBER with Erin Brethauer & Tim Hussin
• – • The Grey Eagle
About the speaker
Erin Brethauer is an Emmy-winning filmmaker, photographer, story producer and co-founder of This Land Films, based in Asheville, NC. Her work explores people’s rhythms and changes over time- ranging from climate change and motherhood to life after incarceration- and has been featured in The New Yorker, The California Sunday Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. She co-directed Last Men Standing, the San Francisco Chronicle’s first feature-length documentary, which premiered at major LGBTQ+ festivals worldwide. Brethauer is currently co-directing and producing her second feature film, STRAY EMBERS, which follows a family’s life over five years after the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California. She was a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and is a Miller/Packan Film Fund recipient. After living through Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina in September 2024 with her partner, Tim Hussin, and their three month-old son, they are developing a film about the flood, incorporating themes from what they learned from her time in Paradise. Brethauer is also working on a short film about the project, Photos From Helene.
Tim Hussin is an Emmy-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Asheville, NC. His first film, America Recycled, documenting a two-year, 5,000-mile bicycle journey through alternative communities in the South, won Best Documentary at the American Documentary Film Festival. As a filmmaker at the San Francisco Chronicle, he co-directed Last Men Standing, the newspaper’s first feature film, which screened at major LGBTQ+ festivals. He was a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and Miller/Packan Film Fund recipient for his current feature film, STRAY EMBERS. His work explores unconventional communities and the quiet, resilient ways people adapt to a changing world.
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