Green Connections Radio Interview: Movies, Environment – Marilyn Weiner, Screenscope Films
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“Find another way.”
We all know the power of movies to move us. Emmy-Award-winning documentary filmmaker – and co-executive producer of the documentary “Dispatches From the Gulf” about the scientific impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico– Marilyn Weiner talks with Green Connections Radio host Joan Michelson about the ups and downs of using filmmaking to spread the environmental message, and this kind of career.
This masterful film, released recently with an additional 50 individual shorts, tells the story of how a large group of scientists who never knew each other before collaborated to explore what happened scientifically to the Gulf as a result of the massive BP oil spill and what they found that can help us in many fields.
You’ll learn about:
- The unique role of the documentarian to be an observer – to “document” – and how to do it right.
- Fundraising for these documentaries.
- hat she learned about scientists while making “Dispatches From the Gulf.”
- Telling the story – deciding what to use of 80+ hours of footage.
- Multi-purposing footage.
- Navigating a career in documentaries.
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