Past Featured Films

Knitting Lessons
(DOCUMENTARY - 9 minutes, 59 seconds)
Mary Dalton

Meet the "Yarn Queen." Mary Stowe is a store owner, pattern designer, sales rep, and accomplished speed knitter.

Filmmaker Profile: MARY DALTON

Mary Dalton has a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and an M.A. in Broadcasting/Cinema from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She earned her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University where she holds the appointments Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow and Associate Professor of Communication.

Mary Dalton’s eight documentaries have been screened at various festivals, museums, galleries, libraries, and on UNC-TV.  He second film, Sam McMillan: Dot Man, was named Best Independent Documentary at the Carolina Film and Video Festival in 2003, and Tom Whitaker: Potter at Large wont the Audience Award and Best Documentary at HPIFF in 2004. Her film Martha in Lattimore premiered at the Real to Reel Film Festival (where it won Best Documentary) and was also an Official Selection of SILVERDOCS: AFI-Discovery Channel Documentary Festival. (See www.marthainlattimore.com for more information.)

Mary lives in Jamestown, NC with her son. She collects Southern folk pottery (specifically face jugs) and primitive antiques. Her interests include cooking, knitting, gardening, reading fiction, seeing movies, and following the progress of her former students.