Newville

Documentary

Nov 13

Newville

Ten siblings, aged 64 to 83, reunite at their decaying childhood home for the first time in 35 years to decide whether to keep or sell it. As old hierarchies resurface and private grievances turn public, a single vote becomes a proxy war for everything left unsaid.

Stage: Production

Project Type: Documentary

Evoke’s Role: NEWVILLE is a grantee of and made in association with Evoke Media. Evoke founder Sabrina Merage Naim and Evoke Director of Impact and Storytelling Jamie Newton are Executive Producers. Evoke Project Coordinator Geovana Oliveira is a Contributing Producer.

Meet the filmmakers

Co-Director, Producer, Editor
Pisie Hochheim is a filmmaker and editor based in Nashville, Tennessee. She edited the Peabody and Independent Spirit Award-nominated HBO series NUCLEAR FAMILY by Ry Russo-Young, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival. She has worked on projects by Lana Wilson, Liz Garbus, and Marnie Ellen Hertzler, with credits across HBO, Hulu, and Netflix. Her short films with her husband and creative partner Tony Oswald have screened internationally. Their short documentary CYCLES won Best Editing at the Ouray International Film Festival and a jury award for Best Documentary Short at the New Hampshire Film Festival. NEWVILLE is her feature directing debut.
Co-Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor
Tony Oswald is a Kentucky-raised, Nashville-based filmmaker and editor of narrative and documentary films. With his wife and creative partner Pisie Hochheim, he has directed four shorts, including the Vimeo Staff Pick HANDHELD. Their feature script BLIND HOG was selected for the New Orleans Film Festival’s South Pitch (2025). He and Pisie helped develop the documentary KINFOLK, directed by Nicole Craine, produced by Darcy McKinnon and executive produced by Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst. Their feature directing debut NEWVILLE won Most Promising U.S. Project at Ji.hlava’s New Visions Forum and received a Jacob Burns Film Center residency.
Producer
Jonna McKone is a producer, director, and photographer whose work spans fiction and nonfiction. Her first feature, ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE, won a Sundance Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation. Her producing credits include MARGIE SOUDEK’S SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS (Sundance), THE TALLEST DWARF (SXSW; Independent Lens), YOUR FINAL MEDITATION, and TO USE A MOUNTAIN (Visions du Réel Special Jury Award). Her films have received support from Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation/JustFilms, SFFILM, Points North, ITVS, IDA, Sandbox Films, and others.
Producer
Bennett Elliott is an Emmy-winning, Peabody-nominated producer based in New York. Her credits include COUPLES THERAPY (Showtime, Seasons 4 and 5), THE FEATHERWEIGHT (Venice 2023), PROCESSION (Netflix; 94th Academy Awards Shortlist), and BISBEE ’17 (Sundance 2018; Gotham Award nominee). She was a 2017–2018 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow, a DOC NYC 40 Under 40 honoree, and a 2025 Berlinale Talent.