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.
Posts Tagged ‘BP/Oil Spill’
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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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,” [...]
