Mystery writer Ethel Shepard is dead. When her biographer and employees of her publisher come to Ethel’s apartment to look for the missing manuscript, they discover the writer’s greatest mystery. She’s published, she perished and so may those who learn her secret. Produced by Emily D.Edwards and Michael Corbett. Screenplay by Emily D. Edwards ©2003

Root Work is the original music soundtrack for Root Doctor. Rousing electric and acoustic blues music written and performed by Peter May (acoustic guitar), Mike “Wezo” Wesolowski (harmonica), Bobby Kelly (electric bass), Kelly Pace (drums) and Bryan Smith (electric guitar). A terrific addition to any blues music collection. Lyrics by Emily D. Edwards ©2005

Root Doctor follows the quest of four women as they search for the infamous root doctor, Onzi Jack, and a cure for all their troubles. Written, Produced, and Edited by Emily Edwards ©2005

This is a 2 DVD set.

DVD ONE: contains the drama “Root Doctor”, Behind the scenes footage, Cast BiOs, and Music Video.

DVD TWO: contains the documentary “Folk Medicine”, and several how-to videos for Making Tinctures and Teas.

Scripture Cake, A Southern Cuisine Movie tells the story of two sides of one family divided by race and misguided law. The quest of a grandson to find his family history causes both families to dredge up bad memories, skeletons, and a history they once suppressed. The parent’s search for their absent son bring the two families together in the kitchen where they discover that shared family traditions help to dissolve the awkwardness and lingering resentment, reuniting the two families after a generation of bitterness. Written, Produced, Directed and Edited by Emily Edwards ©2007

Soundtrack CD from Bone Creek. With multi-talented musicians, Max Drake (guitar/mandolin), Matt Hill (guitar/lap steel/banjo), and Chuck Cotton (drums/percussion), providing the basic “mash” for this distillation, Julie Bean (vocals), FJ Ventre (upright bass), Theresa Drake (percussion), Logie Meachum (guitars/vocals), Scott Manring (banjo/mandolin), and Juan Fernandez (vocals) add backing to the high shots, tempering “Popskull & High Art” to 100 proof. The result is an intriguing chronicle of legends and tall tales with superb musicianship from all involved.

Graduate foreign exchange student, Nora (Alison Walls), sets out to photograph the rural South before bulldozers destroy its rustic, magical beauty for strip malls and condos. Her adventure goes astray as she gets further into the backwoods. Her car breaks down and her assignment gets as lost as she does. Nora encounters Effie (Jane Hallstrom) who trie to help, but complicates Nora’s problems with her own demons. Effie tells the story of Israel Summerfield (Logie Meachum, Two Soldiers), a moonshiner and Avenel Cannon (Juan Fernandez, Walker Texas Ranger, Felicity, To Serve and Protect), an escaped convict who ends up making a deal with the devil to enslave an otherworldly entity. Nora’s outsider status makes her incapable of realizing that the magic she seeks to preserve has already found her. Screenplay and film editing Emily D. Edwards ©2008

The Classical Greek Elements, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth, become dancers, blown into being by the Fifth Element, Idea or Aether, in this experimental Animation.The first dance, Air, represents freedom of movement and a carefree attitude across other physical representations of air: clouds, smoke, breath, etc. The second dance, Fire, represents drive and passion with energetic and forceful movements choreographed against a frenzy of heat, fire, and explosion. Water is the third dance, emotionally flexible and supple, flowing and formless, choreographed to waves and drops of water. The last dance, Earth, is solid and subject to gravity, but it’s stability is necessary for other things to grow. The animation is modified rotoscope style, with gesture drawings inspired by the study of dance and the human form, choreographed to an original soundtrack, layered over HD video. ©2010 Emily D. Edwards