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April 18, 2011
Outsiders
Rumur.com
At rumur we tend to make films that focus on people who go against the grain of the system. As we have matured, our characters have matured, but they are still outsiders who have difficulty going with the flow when the flow is going in a different direction than they think it should.
...The point of all this is that as filmmakers we are drawn towards stories of outsiders who try to have some impact on others. Battle for Brooklyn follows in the direct footsteps of these other films. A few days after we started following Patti Hagan around the Atlantic Yards site (Patti started the fight against the project) she suggested that we meet Daniel Goldstein because she thought he was one of the only people who wouldn’t easily be bought out by the developer or scared of eminent domain. Not only did we know Daniel but he had designed the artwork for [our film] “Radiation”. She was of course right.
While some filmmaker might have followed this story with a “newsy” fact finding eye we chose to see our character as a way into a deeper emotional understanding of the impacts. Now it’s our job to get people to understand that so they don’t think we’ve failed as filmmakers because we haven’t exclusively focused on the facts.
Posted by eric at April 18, 2011 10:53 AM