Monday was a great day in the long life of the Turkey Creek documentary, which is now titled COME HELL OR HIGH WATER: The Battle for Turkey Creek. Composer and musician Derrick Hodge recorded a live session for the score, with guitarist Marvin Sewell, percussionist Herlin Riley and harmonica player Dale Spalding. At the end [...]
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What’s Possible: Documenting Disaster and Renewal
Cross posted from WHAT’S POSSIBLE: THE TIDES BLOG On April 20, 2010, the day BP’s oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Turkey Creek — which I had been making [...]
A moment to remember at the Sundance Doc Edit Lab
My life as a mother and a documentary filmmaker sometimes seems like a film that’s out of sync. But there was a wonderful moment this summer when everything clicked. I had been invited to bring the rough cut of my Tu[...]
A Community Photo Project Asks “Why Save Coastal Louisiana?”
(Cross-posted from Leah’s blog on Bridge the Gulf) Searching for a way to mark the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster, I thought about a series of photographs I saw recently from Lower Terrebonne Parish, Lo[...]
Media That Matters in 2011
“Storytelling is a sacred and beautiful art that we have to continue passing down, whether it be in film, whether it’s on radio, whether it’s on the Internet, whatever multimedia platform that we have to prepare [...]
A different take on Turkey Creek’s epic story tonight on The Daily Show
(Cross-posted from Leah’s blog on Bridge the Gulf) When I heard that The Daily Show was sending one of its “correspondents” to Turkey Creek (in coastal Gulfport, Mississippi), I tried to imagine how a b[...]
New media for communities effected by the oil disaster
BridgeTheGulfProject.org launched this summer and it was rewarding to see how it became a useful tool for fishing communities impacted by the BP oil disaster. We produced a series of videos about community leaders and do[...]
Bridge the Gulf Project will launch soon
We’ve been working toward the launch of bridgethegulfproject.org for many months and the BP oil disaster has added new urgency to the project. It’s a new media storytelling initiative promoting cultural [...]
Natural Resources Defense Council President interviews Derrick Evans
NRDC President Frances Beinecke spent time last week on the Gulf Coast with Turkey Creek’s Derrick Evans and other advisors and grantees of the Gulf Coast Fund to learn about how the BP disaster is impacting coast[...]
The Bridge Project hears from fishermen in Biloxi, MS
On May 7 a team of media artists from New Orleans Video Voices and 2-Cent Entertainment attended a community meeting in Biloxi, Miss. to hear about the impact of the oil disaster on fishermen, particularly the Vietnamese[...]
