“There was an aura of blunt truthfulness permeating his artwork, a sense of authenticity that really did pull us in” —  Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden on Almost There. If you met a mildly deranged looking outsider artist painting portraits at a pierogi festival in Indiana what would you do? Personally I would smile, possibly get my portrait made and then definitely go eat a pierogi. When filmmakers Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden were presented with this scenario this is not what happened. Instead, they befriended the artist, their unlikely relationship slowly evolving into a layered folktale about creative expression […]