RTF MFA Student Film, Dir. Laura Dunn, 2002
Synopsis:
Become the Sky maps an ecology of power spanning 4,000 miles across Texas. From offshore oil-rigs to the mouth of the Rio Grande, Become the Sky weaves a web of energy and politics in the context of war and capitalism. TRT = 53 min.
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Screenings:
Austin Community College, Austin, TX
University of Texas at Austin Geographical Society, Austin, TX
University of Michigan Earth Day Celebration, Ann Arbor, MI
Clean Water Action State Office, East Lansing, MI
Clean Water Action National Conference, Baltimore, MD
Rice University Independent Media Center, Houston, TX
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown, Austin, TX
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
National Environmental Canvasser’s Conference, TN
Okomedia International Environmental Film Festival, Germany
Political Ecology Lecture, Austin, TX
Environmental Law and Policy Center, Chicago, IL
Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX
Zeitgeist Theatre, New Orleans, LA
LSU Union Colonade Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Okomedia Tour, Luneburg, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT
L.O. Guerrero Produce Building, Austin, TX
New York Underground Film Festival, New York City, NY
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, IA
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI
Prix Leonardo Film Festival, Parma, Italia
Tambay Film and Video Festival, Tampa, FL
USA Film Festival, Dallas, TX
CinemaTexas Film Festival, Austin, TX
Centenary College, Shreveport, LA
Tulane University Waldenburg Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
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Awards:
2002 Student Documentary Academy Award
Director bio:
Laura Dunn started making documentaries in response to her undergraduate experience at Yale University. Through a chronicle of labor strikes on campus, The Subtext of a Yale Education (1999) examines the corporatization of higher education. She then returned to her birthplace to make Green (2000), a sobering look at environmental racism along the Mississippi River petrochemical corridor, a.k.a. “Cancer Alley”. Other work includes experimental films Baby (1999), a personal take on population issues, and Become the Sky (2002), an ecological map of power in Texas. Her work has screened internationally in film festivals, art galleries, theaters, universities, churches and union halls. Honors include a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, Student Academy Award, Yale’s Trumbull College Fine Arts Prize, and most recently, an Independent Spirit Award. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and their spirited toddler. The Unforeseen (2008), which is currently being released in theaters nationwide, is her first feature film.
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