Tess Bliven is a Bay Area writer and director of observational films, often drawn from her childhood in a rural counterculture community. Her work is unhurried, attentive to the textures of childhood, community and the landscapes that shape her characters. Her debut short Liminality world-premiered in competition at the Atlanta Film Festival (Oscar-qualifying) and went on to play Frameline49, the Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and Tels Quels in Brussels. She is developing her first feature, Locust Glen, an ecofeminist coming-of-age film set in Connecticut in 1963, the year after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
