The upcoming documentary “Killing The Colorado” examines the man-made water crisis that’s affecting the American West. At one point, water was an abundant necessity, and now it’s a scarce and complex commodity. Though many efforts have been taken to curb excessive water use in the West, it’s not clear shorter showers and ripping out lawns will make any discernible difference. While recent drought conditions have diminished the once-mighty Colorado River — the source of the vast majority of the West’s water — experts are now wondering whether the most severe shortages have been caused not by weather or consumer choices but by short-sighted policies and poor planning. Did we cause this crisis, and can we find a way to fix it? Watch an exclusive clip from the doc below.
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The film is from Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein...
Read More: Robert Redford Producing Factual Drama ‘The West’ For Discovery Channel
The film is from Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein...
- 7/18/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Documentaries accepted into the Sundance Film Festival often hold an air of prestige, but the actual shoots are seldom as beautiful as the footage appears on screen. Few of the Sundance 2014 cinematographers can claim such a difficult production as Jesse Moss, whose past work includes "Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story" and "Full Battle Rattle" and who now comes to Sundance with the controversy-bound "The Overnighters," a provocative documentary surrounding a recent oil boom in small-town North Dakota that has its residents battling with the local pastor. Moss not only shot the feature documentary, but he also directed. Which camera and lens did you use? I shot "The Overnighters" on a Sony F3 with the Red 17-50 and - when I had a little more cash - the Fujinon 19-90. What was the most difficult shot on your movie, and how did you pull it off? I was filming my main subject,...
- 1/25/2014
- by Ziyad Saadi
- Indiewire
By Aaron Hillis
The war rages on, and just when you think you've seen every angle explored and exhausted in cinema, in stomps a bizarre new perspective from the desert . and not the one in Iraq, but California's Mojave. Co-directed by Jesse Moss ("Speedo") and Tony Gerber (who previously worked together when Gerber executive produced Moss' doc for AMC, "Rated R: Republicans in Hollywood"), "Full Battle Rattle" takes viewers behind the scenes of Medina Wasl, a fake Iraqi village populated by actual Iraqi exiles that exists as part of the U.S. Army's billion-dollar simulation, an urban warfare training camp where soldiers spend three weeks before experiencing real deployment. Fantasy and reality intermingle in affecting and often strangely comical ways, and Moss and Gerber's film captures this dynamic within the intimate stories of the simulation's players. I spoke with the filmmaking duo about what it took to get insider access,...
The war rages on, and just when you think you've seen every angle explored and exhausted in cinema, in stomps a bizarre new perspective from the desert . and not the one in Iraq, but California's Mojave. Co-directed by Jesse Moss ("Speedo") and Tony Gerber (who previously worked together when Gerber executive produced Moss' doc for AMC, "Rated R: Republicans in Hollywood"), "Full Battle Rattle" takes viewers behind the scenes of Medina Wasl, a fake Iraqi village populated by actual Iraqi exiles that exists as part of the U.S. Army's billion-dollar simulation, an urban warfare training camp where soldiers spend three weeks before experiencing real deployment. Fantasy and reality intermingle in affecting and often strangely comical ways, and Moss and Gerber's film captures this dynamic within the intimate stories of the simulation's players. I spoke with the filmmaking duo about what it took to get insider access,...
- 7/15/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
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