Not that these events have informed every step of Poulshock’s own filmmaking career – there have been many side roads along the way, including ten years in a musical group that would later be inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. But things do seem to have come full circle, and the Northwest writer/director’s creative spirit is often inspired by the themes of mysticism and social justice pursued by Rocha and others in the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement. What would all of this have to do with TV spots for Goodwill, a public television series on higher mathematics, music videos for preschoolers, a marketing video about a table saw that won’t cut your fingers off, or Poulshock’s award-winning screenplays like The Fix, Dog Dirty Mean, or The House of Louie? Nothing directly, really, except for the fact every project deserves the same passion and originality required to make something as good as God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun.
