The only negative about this film is that now that it's complete, we no longer have a reason to spend half days in conversation with Krista and Ishmael. Krista's book is a a memoir and a love story that brings two people with radically different backgrounds together. Krista grew up a surfer in California. Ishmael grew up in a mud hut in Libya.
We were SO HAPPY when the Bower Birds called us to do this, because their way of life (though not without its challenges, including a living in a civil war era house with only one heated room and self-building a log cabin between tours) is a beautiful, inspiring and off the mainstream path. So we had a very great time hanging out and filming and being treated to pimento cheese tortilla things and coconut-kale stew.
Mini documentary on Lee Smith and her immmersive new novel based around a cast of fictional and historic characters whose lives were tied to Highland Hospital. Both Lee's father and her son spent time being treated at Highlands for mental illness. Zelda Fitzgerald, a prominent character in the novel, died in the Highland Hospital fire in 1948.
Another collaborative Lost In The Trees-CreatoDestructo production. Shot underwater at the Chapel Hill Community Pool with two scuba tanks and lots of ingenuity and shivering.
