Last Season, The

About the movie

Amid the bustling world of Oregon’s wild mushroom hunting camps, the lives of two former soldiers intersect. Roger, a 75 year-old sniper with the US Special Forces in Vietnam, and Kouy, a 46 year-old platoon leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Freedom Fighters who battled the Khmer Rouge, come together each fall to hunt the elusive matsutake mushroom, a rare mushroom prized in Japanese culture and cuisine. However, the pair discover more than just mushrooms in the woods: they find a new life, and livelihood; and, a means to slowly heal the scarring wounds of war.
The Last Season is a journey into the woods, into the memory of war and survival, telling a story of family from an unexpected place. The Last Season made its World Premiere at the 2014 San Francisco International Film Festival where it took home the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Documentary. Directed by Sara Dosa (associate producer of Inequality for All) and produced by Academy Award nominated producer Josh Penn (Beasts of the Southern Wild.)

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