Look & See: Wendell Berry’s Kentucky co-producer Nick Offerman, an actor of many an indie film and of course on TV’s Parks & Recreation, Fargo, and author of Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living, as well as gifted woodworker and man of many other talents, stopped by to answer five questions for us …
Laura Dunn Draws From Wendell Berry for Look at Rural America
Laura Dunn’s first feature documentary, The Unforeseen, executive produced by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, aired on the Sundance Channel, and was called “a poetic and high-minded meditation on American developers’ manifest destiny and the cancer it introduces into the natural world,” by critic David Edelstein. It explored a …
Organic Farmer, Writer Mas Masumoto Shares Sense of Place with Wendell Berry
by Mas Masumoto I dream of Wendell Berry visiting my farm. I imagine us two old farmers, stopping along the roadside, leaning against our pick up trucks, kicking at the dirt with our work boots. Then we start talking. Or, in another vision, I see two old farmers visiting on a farmhouse porch, pausing from …
Floyd County, USA: Digging Deep for Coal Doc
Filmmakers Sally Rubin and Jen Gilomen shared with Independent Lens the arduous process of making Deep Down and the profound rewards of doing what you love with someone you trust. The film premieres Tuesday, November 23 at 10 PM (check local listings). What impact do you hope Deep Down will have? We have three main …