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Joanie 4 Jackie

The Slow Escape

20m

Directed by Sativa Peterson • 1998 • United States

In this film, made by Sativa Peterson in 1997, the narrator—a young radio DJ—contemplates the disappearance of twenty-three-year-old Pamela Ferguson, last seen leaving her job as a waitress at the Entré Restaurant in Winslow, Arizona.

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