martes, 12 de mayo de 2009

Search for the video

Yesterday when I arrived at the office, the director of the organization asked me to find a documentary called After the Clouds Clear that I wanted to use for a project with a group of students coming from the University of Georgia for a study abroad program. The film is by an american director and talks about a conflict in the cloud forest of the northern Andes Mountains about the community's resistance to a proposed copper mine that would destroy their way of living.  While the movie at played at an independent theater when it first came out in 2007, it is now no where to be found. I started my search looking up phone numbers and making calls to the movie theatre and a couple of schools, but when I realized that my phone efforts were fruitless, I began my journey on foot and public transportation. With the goal of finding as many video stores as possible and hopefully at least getting some leads as to where I should be looking, or even better actually finding the documentary, I left my office at 3 pm. By 6:30, I had looked at two universities, and walked for at least 3 miles in areas with a large number of video stores. While I had been successful in finding people willing to help and give me suggestions, I had no luck in finding the illusive movie. Im supposed to return to one of the universities tomorrow to see if they have uncovered anything (I think they thought I was a student and were incredibly helpful in trying to uncover the DVD). Its funny, I had no problem finding an apartment to rent, yet a DVD seems impossible to get my hands on. 

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  1. this is stuart- trevor's friend. i know the girls who made the film. you should go to their website: http://www.clearfilms.org/html/when_clouds_clear.html. You can also email Danielle Bernstein- danielle@clearfilms.org. They used a quiteno production team, so there should be people around town who worked on the film and can get you a copy.

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