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Post by ex on Nov 9, 2007 17:49:59 GMT
This is the third OST Dav and Delge completed this year... might be worth including in the future history section... said this awhile back on the official MA forum...
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Post by richard on Nov 9, 2007 23:38:40 GMT
What exactly is Trouble the Water? Is it a film/docu? A UK/American production? I did a quick google on it and couldn't find anything on it.
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Post by ex on Nov 10, 2007 14:14:23 GMT
Documentary about Hurricane Katrina focusing on two people who rescue their neighbours....
Directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal [producers of Farenheit 9/11]... premiered at a Sundance showing earlier in the year...
Other than that not a lot of info you're right...
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Post by p on Nov 11, 2007 9:51:49 GMT
very little info indeed www.mediarights.org/news/2005/10/21/independent_filmmakers_respond_to_katrinaAmir Bar-Lev was about to begin post-production on his feature-length doc Marla when Katrina hit. He had spent some time in New Orleans in the past, working on a Weather Channel piece about the possibility of a hurricane in New Orleans. It never aired. Wanting to get involved, he sent an email to several New York-based filmmakers inviting them to go down to New Orleans with him to make a film. A few days later, he joined forces with Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 to follow the story of Louisiana National Guard Soldiers returning from Iraq whose families were directly impacted by the hurricane.
"75% of the job is putting yourself there. The challenge was almost too many stories," Bar-Lev explains. After a week in New Orleans, he and his filmmaking partners met a family from the 9th Ward, among the people the National Guard was too late to help during the disaster. "The networks aired around-the-clock coverage of the hurricane. But our film will tell a story of Katrina you would never see on TV," insists Lessin. "The story that is emerging is one we never could have predicted."
The experience of making this film and being a part of the national response to Katrina has had a profound effect on Bar-Lev. "I am commiting myself to a working philosophy of spending a certain amount of time and resources every year into simply throwing myself into situations where I might find a film."www.uwm.edu/MilwaukeeIdea/CC/institute/2007%20brochure.pdfTia Lessin was a producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine and received the Sidney Hillman Prize for Behind the Labels,a film she directed about labor trafficking in the US garment industry. Last
year, Tia received a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute to promote a national
conversation on racism and inequality in America with her film, Trouble the Water. Her collaborator,
Carl Deal, was archival producer for Fahrenheit and Bowling, and has contributed to many other social
issue films. Tia and Carl are 2007 Sundance Institute Fellows. |
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Post by richard on Nov 12, 2007 13:30:35 GMT
That answers a few questions. Thanks
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Post by ex on Jan 14, 2008 22:32:20 GMT
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