Special Screening: HBO presents ‘Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson’

"Packed in a Trunk" uncovers the trail of lesbian artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, who was committed to an asylum in 1925 and never heard from again. All of her worldly possessions were packed into trunks and shipped to a relative in West Virginia, where they sat in an attic for 40 years. Edith's great-niece, Emmy Award-winning writer and director Jane Anderson, grew up surrounded by Edith's paintings, thanks to her mother who had gone poking through that dusty attic and rescued Edith's sophisticated, light-filled canvasses. The film follows Jane and her spouse Tess on a decades-long journey to find the answers to the mystery of Edith's buried life, return the work to Provincetown and have Edith's contributions recognized by the larger art world.


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PANELIST:
Michelle Boyaner
Director, executive producer, co-writer

Tess Ayers
Executive producer