MotherSon Productions
INDEPENDENT FILM · DULUTH, MINNESOTA
A historic home. A new creative chapter.
We’re turning our Duluth home into a movie studio.
Welcome to the Emerald Lady, where mother-and-son artists Clare Cooley and Bodhi Werner are building a place to bring extraordinary stories to life.
The Emerald Lady
Coming up · October 17, 2026
Experience North Port at Zeitgeist.
Discover the stories taking shape here in Duluth.
The place
A home for filmmaking.
A historic house and carriage house becoming spaces for filming, visual effects, editing, and making things.
The stories
Welcome to North Port.
Interconnected sci-fi and horror stories set in a fictional version of 1990s Duluth.
The community
Help local stories grow.
Meet the North Port Episodic Series Collective and learn about its films, mentorships, and community programming.
The Emerald Lady · Duluth, Minnesota
A historic home becomes a place to make movies.
We’re adapting the Emerald Lady and its carriage house into a working home for independent filmmaking. Each project helps us build the spaces, tools, and skills for the next.
The carriage house
Green-screen filming and virtual production bring imagined environments into our small studio.
Behind the scenes
Editing, visual effects, props, and the everyday work of bringing a film to life.
The transformation
Follow the rooms, the projects, and the people shaping this new chapter of the house.
Made here · Imagined worlds
The North Port storyworld.
A sci-fi/horror anthology based on Bodhi Werner’s novel, set in a fictional version of 1990s Duluth. Different characters. Interconnected stories.
Animation
NØRTH PØRT 1999
The animated short that began the anthology, created in Unreal Engine.
Live action
Girl Scout & Tomboy
Two girls must survive a night in the woods after witnessing a secret operation.
Virtual production
FØUND
A found-footage horror film combining live action with digital environments.
The people behind MotherSon
Two artists. A shared love of making.
Bodhi Werner
Writer, director, and filmmaker. Creator of the North Port storyworld.
Clare Cooley
Multidisciplinary artist, producer, and co-founder of MotherSon Productions.
Writer · Director · Filmmaker
Bodhi Werner
Bodhi creates science-fiction, horror, and thriller stories from Duluth, Minnesota. His North Port storyworld connects a novel with an expanding anthology of films.
Artist · Producer · Co-founder
Clare Cooley
Clare is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of MotherSon Productions with her son, Bodhi Werner. Her work and their shared filmmaking practice are part of the creative life of the Emerald Lady.
The North Port Episodic Series Collective (NPESC)
Support films and filmmakers from our region.
The collective brings regional artists together to tell compelling, authentic stories, offer hands-on mentorship, and share filmmaking with local audiences.
Donations to the collective are made through its fiscal sponsor, Zeitgeist Center for Arts & Community.
October 17, 2026 · Zeitgeist · Duluth
Come experience North Port.
Join us for a community screening of work from the North Port storyworld.
Final program, showtime, and ticket information will appear here once confirmed.
MotherSonProductions.com · Duluth, Minnesota