Indie Film: Snowy the turtle, and his documentarians, are going to Sundance A Portland filmmaking couple takes interest in a family pet, and it pays off. By Dennis Perkins Share “Snowy” tells the story of a box turtle who was abandoned by the filmmaker’s cousin and has since been living in a basement. Photo courtesy of Alexander Wolf Lewis Imagine you’re trapped in a too-small room, at the mercy of forces outside your control, and you’ve been in there for what seems like forever. Oh, right, that’s all of us for the last year, and we don’t have to pretend anything.