Filmmaker Jon Goldman returns to the land of his great grandfather, Louisiana, to discover the true cost of progress through oil exploration, sixty years after the historic cinema of Robert Flaherty’s Louisiana Story with interviews and his own animation.
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This Time It Is Personal
Posted: March 8, 2011 in SYNOPSIS, THE FILMTags: bayou, BP/Oil Spill, deepwater horizon, documentary filmmaking, environment, family, fishers, gas, gulf spill, hydrology, land reclamation, Louisiana, louisiana story, mineral rights, MRGO, new orleans, offshore drilling, oil, oil exploration, oil waste, oysterman, petroleum exploration, robert j. flaherty, spoil islands
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In this classic animation, a Martian learns of all of the wonders of oil production and progress, except any environmental costs, social costs ( wars ) toxic costs or waste-related by products. One of many films produced by the American Petroleum Institute.
We met Michael at Dean Blanchard’s place on Grand Isle. ( we’ll hear from Dean in an upcoming clip) Dean is the largest shrimp broker in the region. Michael is a fifth generation Shrimper who skippers his shrimp trawler with his wife, Wendy. I received word a day or two after this interview that he [...]
We met Gary Cure onboard the Donna Ann. He is an affable fellow, a hard working oysterman who looks to BP to make thing right. He also looks to that oil company to employ him again as a worker on the spill because it is the only thing bringing in anything. It is the waiting [...]
Sample Reel
Posted: February 27, 2011 in SYNOPSIS, THE FILMTags: bayou, BP, BP/Oil Spill, deepwater horizon, documentary filmmaking, energy policy, environment, family, fishers, gas, gulf spill, hydrology, Katrina, land reclamation, louisiana story, mineral rights, MRGO, new orleans, offshore drilling, oil, oil exploration, oil waste, oysterman, petroleum exploration, robert j. flaherty, shrimpers, spoil islands
Sixty three years before a deep water oil drilling platform near the Mississippi Delta exploded into U.S. History, Robert J. Flaherty (who made “Nanook of the North,” and is considered the father of the American documentary) was commissioned by Standard Oil in 1948 to make a film about oil exploration. The result was “Louisiana Story,” [...]
