Env Film Festival (2012) -- "Dust Bowl" (w/Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey) @ Natl Archives:
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THE DUST BOWL (USA, 2012, 60 min.)
Special Sneak Preview with Clips The worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, “the dust bowl,” caused by the heedless actions of thousands of individual farmers, encouraged by their government and influenced by global markets, resulted in a collective tragedy that nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. This decade-long natural catastrophe is chronicled in all of its complexity and profound human drama in a new film by iconic filmmaker Ken Burns. He previews his new documentary with clips and discussion, along with writer and producer Dayton Duncan and producer Julie Dunfey, in this special evening. The film combines both oral history, using compelling interviews with 30 survivors, along with a historical accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on the Southern Plains when the skies withheld their rains and pillars of dust choked out the mid-day sun. The Dust Bowl reveals an epic of human pain and suffering, causing the largest exodus in the nation’s history. Mirroring this morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us, the film also tells a story of heroic perseverance and examines the roles and limits of government. The film combines Florentine Films’ standard elements of narration and commentary by historians along with photographs, footage and music from the period. Directed and produced by Ken Burns. Written and produced by Dayton Duncan. Produced by Julie A. Dunfey.
Introduced by filmmaker Ken Burns. Discussion with filmmakers Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan and Julie A. Dunfey follows screening.
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DUST1_120325_015.JPG: Ken Burns, Julie Dunfey, Dayton Duncan, and David Ferriero
DUST1_120325_019.JPG: Maarja Krusten
DUST1_120325_022.JPG: David Ferriero, Larry O'Brien, Helen O'Brien
DUST1_120325_024.JPG: Marvin Pinkert, Ken Burns, David Ferriero, and Larry O'Brien
DUST1_120325_031.JPG: Jim Gardner, Midge Gardner
DUST1_120325_032.JPG: Maarja Krusten, David McMillen, and his wife
DUST1_120325_041.JPG: Maribel Guevara
DUST1_120325_042.JPG: Peter O'Brien
DUST1_120325_045.JPG: Ken Burns talking to Maribel Guevara, David Ferriero in the background
DUST1_120325_052.JPG: Ken Burns, Maribel Guevara, Peter O'Brien
DUST1_120325_064.JPG: Diane Nichols, Ken Burns, Maribel Guevara, Peter O'Brien, and Owen Davies (Environmental Film Festival Staff) @ National Archives
DUST1_120325_109.JPG: Maribel Guevara, Peter O'Brien, and Helen Strong
DUST2_120325_010.JPG: Bob Willard
DUST2_120325_013.JPG: David Balducchi and John Elliff
DUST2_120325_017.JPG: Earl ("Mac") McDonald, the Archives' photographer
DUST2_120325_047.JPG: David Ferriero
DUST2_120325_067.JPG: David Ferriero
DUST2_120325_088.JPG: Dayton Duncan
DUST2_120325_116.JPG: Ken Burns
DUST2_120325_122.JPG: Ken Burns
DUST2_120325_145.JPG: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, Julie A. Dunfey
DUST2_120325_170.JPG: Dayton Duncan
DUST2_120325_195.JPG: (left to right) Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, and Julie Dunfey
DUST2_120325_254.JPG: Julie Dunfey
DUST2_120325_291.JPG: Dayton Duncan
DUST2_120325_542.JPG: Tom Nastick and Ken Burns
DUST2_120325_547.JPG: Julie Dunfey and ???
DUST2_120325_553.JPG: David Balducchi and his wife
DUST2_120325_556.JPG: Chip Comins and Julie Dunfey
DUST2_120325_560.JPG: Chip Comins (AREDAY, Aspen) and Bill Stetson
DUST2_120325_587.JPG: (left) John Elliff, ???, Bob Willard
(right) Dayton Duncan
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2012 photos: Equipment this year: My mainstays were the Fuji S100fs, Nikon D7000, and the new Fuji X-S1. I also used an underwater Fuji XP50 and a Nikon D600. The first three cameras all broke this year and had to be repaired.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Shepherdstown, WV, Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA),
a week-long family reunion cruise of the Caribbean,
another week-long family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with lots of in-transit time in Ohio and Indiana), and
my 7th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including side trips to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon, etc).
Ego strokes: I had a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. I had a photograph of the George Segal San Francisco Holocaust memorial used as the cover of Quebec Francais (issue 165). Not being able to read French, I'm not entirely sure what the article is about but, hey! And I guess what could be considered to be a positive thing, my site is now established enough that spammers have noticed it and I had to block 17,000 file description postings for Viagra and whatever else..
Number of photos taken this year: just below 410,000.
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