Desc: Essie: Directed by Brook Pruitt. With Nelson Brooks, Emily Suzanne Carroll, Hollie Cost, Essie Ebrahimi. Essie Ebrahimi shares his story of how he got started turning wood and also tells about his faith. Essie won the Bluff Park Art Show in Hoover, Alabama in 2017. Up until this point in his life, not many people had seen his work. Essie makes vases, platters, bowls, crosses, and pierces (burns) wood that have intricate details. Some of the pieces take months to make.