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 ‘Louisiana’
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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Andrew Barron
Posted: February 7, 2011 in INTERVIEWS, The PeopleTags: bayou, deepwater horizon, documentary filmmaking, energy policy, environment, family, fishers, gas, gulf spill, hydrology, Katrina, land reclamation, Louisiana, louisiana story, mineral rights, MRGO, new orleans, oil, oil exploration, oysterman, robert j. flaherty, shrimpers, spoil islands
Andrew Barron Barataria•Terrebonne National Estuarine Program (BTNEP) We went to Thibodaux, Louisiana to Nicholls State University where we met Andrew Barron at the Barataria•Terrebonne National Estuarine Program (BTNEP). Both and his colleague Dean Blanchard ( not the Shrimp broker from Grand Isle) spoke to us about the decimation of the marshlands of Southern Louisiana, by [...]
