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Local filmmaker is on a mission to show how abuse causes lifelong scars Press Home
Monday, July 24, 2000

By CECELIA GOODNOW
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

As a kid, Oliver Tuthill charged friends a dime admission to backyard screenings of his homemade monster movies and westerns.

At 54, he is a struggling filmmaker once more, but one with a mission -- to show the ugly face of emotional abuse.

Stung by his own childhood encounters with bullying adults, he's using film to jolt society out of complacency about a form of trauma that leaves deep but invisible scars.

Read the full article at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
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On a tiny budget, Tuthill often works as cameraman. Most of his actors work for deferred pay, a percentage of the film's earnings when it finds a market. Paul Kitagaki Jr./P-I