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A visually stunning narrative documentary, NAKED GARDENS immerses audiences in the complex, unseen world of a family nudist resort in the Florida Everglades. Filmed over one season at this lush tropical campsite, the film follows the stories of individuals drawn to an unusual community, which promises both non-conformist values and, more importantly for some, a cheap place to live. As aging owner Morley and his residents prepare for the largest gathering of nudists in the US, the Mid-Winter Naturist Festival, they are faced with challenges both as a community and as individuals. Filmmakers Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan (Pahokee) are known for their verité stories that reimagine ways of seeing America, and its people. Embedding themselves within communities typically outside of the media eye, they capture the relational foundations upon which individual lives are built, alongside the historical and economic currents that shape the most intimate aspects of American existence. In NAKED GARDENS, the filmmaking duo creates a portrait of the rebellious retirees, LGBTQ loners, exiles from conservative America and families with young children, all of whom have decided to make this nudist resort their home. In this episode Dawn talks with Ivete and Patrick about the underground filmmaking scene, American vs European film festivals, opening themselves up in new and vulnerable ways, and the importance of support systems on set for the filmmaking teams and protagonists. Follow the film: Website Instagram @ivetepatrick
Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan's award-winning documentary films such as 'Happiness is a Journey' show the unseen sides of American culture. The post Happiness is a Journey: The Unseen America appeared first on Factual America Podcast.
Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan are award-winning filmmakers. Their documentary films have premiered at Sundance and won multiple awards including the Directors Fortnight best short film prize at Cannes. Patrick and Ivete's body of work focuses on the seldom seen and forgotten parts of American society. Their most recent short Happiness is a Journey, produced by the Guardian, captures a night in the life of Eddie “Bear” Lopez, who spends his Christmas Eve and early Christmas Day delivering newspapers around Austin, Texas. Ivete and Patrick join us to talk about their films, upcoming projects and how they find the inspiration and subjects for their films. Watch the full interview at https://www.alamopictures.co.uk/podcast/happiness-is-a-journey/ “It's the process of creating beauty and music, and then thinking why that is missing from our collective consciousness of who we are as a country, or as people, that inspires to make films.” – Ivete Lucas What we Cover: 00:00 - The trailer for Happiness is a Journey, and introducing Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan.03:23 - What the film is about.06:53 - How Ivete and Patrick met Bear and chose him as the subject for their documentary.08:52 - The benefits of filming a documentary with an iPhone.11:08 - Why Ivete and Patrice presented the film with a split screen.13:25 - The relationship they formed with the Guardian and what it's like working with them.18:46 - What Roadside Attraction is all about.24:43 - Why it's fun to create shorts rather than feature documentaries.30:03 - How they discovered Pahokee and why they decided to tell the community's story.33:40 - Patrick and Ivete's attraction to the unseen parts of America.36:37 - The immigrant perspective that Ivete brings to their films.37:54 - Patrick's background as a visual artist and why he left that scene.42:39 - Their upcoming feature film Naked Gardens about a struggling nudist resort in Florida.47:55 - The new films they're shooting in Texas and Louisiana. Resources: Happiness is a Journey (2021) Pahokee (2019) Skip Day (2018) Roadside Attraction (2017) The Rabbit Hunt (2017) The Send-Off (2016) Naked Gardens The MovieMaker Magazine Innersound Audio Alamo Pictures Connect with Ivete Lucas:Website IMDb Connect with Patrick Bresnan: Website IMDb Connect with Factual America: Facebook Instagram Twitter Connect with Matthew Sherwood: Facebook LinkedIn Twitter More From Factual America: Guy Clark: Texas Music Legend The Last Hillbilly of Rural Appalachia Boys State: Reflection of a Polarized Society
durée : 00:27:15 - Le Réveil culturel - par : Tewfik Hakem - Entretien avec les réalisateurs américains, Ivete Lucas et Patrick Bresnan, pour la sortie de leur film documentaire "Pahokee, une jeunesse américaine". - réalisation : Vincent Abouchar - invités : Ivete Lucas Réalisatrice; Patrick Bresnan Réalisateur
durée : 00:27:15 - Le Réveil culturel - par : Tewfik Hakem - Entretien avec les réalisateurs américains, Ivete Lucas et Patrick Bresnan, pour la sortie de leur film documentaire "Pahokee, une jeunesse américaine". - réalisation : Vincent Abouchar - invités : Ivete Lucas Réalisatrice; Patrick Bresnan Réalisateur
The 2019 documentary Pahokee is a landmark project for filmmakers Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan and a sign of hope for the rural South Florida community whose story they tell. An official selection in 2019 Sundance and South by Southwest Film Festivals, Pahokee won the Miami Film Festival’s 2019 Knight Made in Miami Award. Perched on the Southeastern shore of Lake Okeechobee in the Everglades, forty miles west and a world apart from affluent West Palm Beach, Pahokee is named after the Seminole word meaning "grassy waters.” In the film, we follow four students as they navigate the hope and heartbreak of their senior year at Pahokee High School. All eyes are on the rituals of football, prom and graduation in the town these teenagers call home. Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Film Audio and Photography courtesy Otis Lucas Related Episodes: Women Writers on Cuba in Film, Introducing Miami Film Festival GEMS 2017, Alexa Lim Haas on Animating Daydreams, Borscht 10 Film Festival Related Links: The Film Pahokee, Otis Lucas, Miami Film Festival 2019
The Champs-Elysées film festival is underway at some of the many cinema halls on and around the famous Parisian avenue. The festival focus is American and French independent cinema. One of its highlights are its retrospectives. One of the special guests is British actor Tim Roth. A man of many faces, and even an ape's as RFI's Rosslyn Hyams reports in this month's Culture in France. Roth's full interview with RFI can be heard on RFI Soundcloud. The 7th Champs-Elysées film festival runs competitions for feature and short films, French and US, and some coproductions. Results at the closing ceremony on Tuesday, June 19. Here's a list of movies in the running: US Features 1985 directed by Yen TanHale County This Morning, This Evening directed by Ramell RossMadeline's Madeline by Josephine DeckerMy Name is Myeisha by Gus KriegerSollers Point - Baltimore directed by Matt PorterfieldTyrel directed by Sebastián Silva French Features 68, mon père et les clous (68, My Father and the Nails) directed by Samuel BigiaouiCassandro, The Exotico ! directed by Marie LosierContes de Juillet (July Tales) directed by Guillaume BracFunan directed by Denis DoLa trajectoire du homard (The Lobster Trajectory) directed by Vincent Giovanni and Igor MendjiskyNaufragé volontaire (Happy to be Sea-Wrecked) directed by Didier Nion US Shorts Absent directed by Sudarshan SureshAfter/Life Directed by Puck LoAgua Viva directed by Alexa Lim HaasCaroline directed by Logan George and Celine HeldDisintegration 93-96 directed by Miko ReverezaGreat Choice directed by Robin ComisarHair Wolf directed by Mariama DialloReady for Love directed by Dylan Pasture and Lauren McCuneSkip Day directed by Ivete Lucas and Patrick BresnanThe Shivering Truth directed by Vernon Chatman and Cat Solen French Shorts Allonge ta foulée ! (Lengthen your Stride) directed by Brahim FritahBut You Look So Good directed by Marina ZiolkowskiDe Natura directed by Lucile HadžihalilovićHuit (Eight) directed by Mathieu MouterdeLe mal bleu (Blue Evil) directed by Anaïs Tellenne and Zoran Boukherma Ordalie directed by Sacha BarbinPlus fort que moi (Beyond My Control) directed by Hania OurabahPoke directed by Mareike EngelhardtSilence directed by Léo Cannone and Thibaud Lomenech
The Champs-Elysées film festival is underway at some of the many cinema halls on and around the famous Parisian avenue. The festival focus is American and French independent cinema. One of its highlights are its retrospectives. One of the special guests is British actor Tim Roth. A man of many faces, and even an ape's as RFI's Rosslyn Hyams reports in this month's Culture in France. Roth's full interview with RFI can be heard on RFI Soundcloud. The 7th Champs-Elysées film festival runs competitions for feature and short films, French and US, and some coproductions. Results at the closing ceremony on Tuesday, June 19. Here's a list of movies in the running: US Features 1985 directed by Yen TanHale County This Morning, This Evening directed by Ramell RossMadeline's Madeline by Josephine DeckerMy Name is Myeisha by Gus KriegerSollers Point - Baltimore directed by Matt PorterfieldTyrel directed by Sebastián Silva French Features 68, mon père et les clous (68, My Father and the Nails) directed by Samuel BigiaouiCassandro, The Exotico ! directed by Marie LosierContes de Juillet (July Tales) directed by Guillaume BracFunan directed by Denis DoLa trajectoire du homard (The Lobster Trajectory) directed by Vincent Giovanni and Igor MendjiskyNaufragé volontaire (Happy to be Sea-Wrecked) directed by Didier Nion US Shorts Absent directed by Sudarshan SureshAfter/Life Directed by Puck LoAgua Viva directed by Alexa Lim HaasCaroline directed by Logan George and Celine HeldDisintegration 93-96 directed by Miko ReverezaGreat Choice directed by Robin ComisarHair Wolf directed by Mariama DialloReady for Love directed by Dylan Pasture and Lauren McCuneSkip Day directed by Ivete Lucas and Patrick BresnanThe Shivering Truth directed by Vernon Chatman and Cat Solen French Shorts Allonge ta foulée ! (Lengthen your Stride) directed by Brahim FritahBut You Look So Good directed by Marina ZiolkowskiDe Natura directed by Lucile HadžihalilovićHuit (Eight) directed by Mathieu MouterdeLe mal bleu (Blue Evil) directed by Anaïs Tellenne and Zoran Boukherma Ordalie directed by Sacha BarbinPlus fort que moi (Beyond My Control) directed by Hania OurabahPoke directed by Mareike EngelhardtSilence directed by Léo Cannone and Thibaud Lomenech