Beaver Trilogy Part IV (2015)

Director
Brad Besser

Main cast
Trent Harris

Genres
Documentary

Description
A chance meeting in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker Trent Harris and a young man from Beaver, Utah inspired the creation of an underground film that is now known as Beaver Trilogy. But the film itself is only part of the story.


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