EAGLE, Idaho — “My relationship with my mom is so important to me, and my goodness, she has been my biggest supporter from day one,” said Lauren Havel, filmmaker and director.
Havel’s filmmaking journey began at age 13 at a film camp in Friday Harbor, Washington, where she “just absolutely fell in love with it, started making film project after project, and just got bigger and bigger.”
When Idaho News 6 last spoke with Havel in 2024, her red-carpet premiere at the Morrison Center had just introduced “The Ground Beneath Our Feet” to Treasure Valley audiences. But the story behind the camera began years earlier with an unexpected moment of inspiration…