Gracie knows hangovers. She’s intimately acquainted with them. But this one? Why did she wake up, half-dressed, on a Florida beach, 1100 miles from home? Suspicious and distrustful of everyone, including a café owner with a troubled history of her own, Gracie prefers the relief of alcohol – which had always worked for her. When she’s arrested for public drunkenness, Gracie is given a choice: six months in jail or 90 meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous in 90 days, and she has to do it in the small town she’s landed in. She’s not used to strangers caring about her, but perhaps the power of community can help her sidestep the land mines lining her path to sobriety – especially the ones she’s laid herself. “GRACE.” compassionately looks at the disease of addiction through a young woman inching towards redemption.
Craven’s awards and recognitions include the Producers Guild of America’s 1995 NOVA Award for Most Promising Motion Picture Producer of the Year, the Vermont Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and selection to the American Film Institute’s first-ever AFI:Project 20/20, as one of 18 U.S. and international filmmakers to travel the world to screen and discuss their work. Festivals and special screenings include Sundance, South By Southwest, Lincoln Center, The Smithsonian, Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, Cinematheque Francaise, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and The Constitutional Court of Johannesburg.
Four of Craven’s films have played The Woods Hole Film Festival — and he will screen his pictures Where the Rivers Flow North (1994 – w/ Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal, Michael J. Fox) and Disappearances (2007 – w/ Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold, Gary Farmer, Charlie McDermott) as part of his residency at this year’s Woods Hole Film Festival.
