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An indie filmmaker who also serves as a hired gun on other people's projects - Frozen River was written and directed by New Yorker Courtney Hunt - [Nate Beaman] worked as Best Boy Grip on the film. He was joined on its lighting crew by two of his old classmates from Burlington College, Adam Lukens and Justin "Rusty" Bennett. Beaman notes, "We all also worked on Sugar, which was also a huge festival hit."
[Heath Eiden] ended up with nearly 250 hours of footage, which he boiled down to 88 minutes over the course of five years of nearly full-time labor. "I didn't have the resources to make the film right after [Howard Dean]'s run. So I timed it for this election," says the Minnesota native, who left a job as a New York sales exec to move to Vermont with his wife 10 years ago. To fund the film, "We literally sold the farm," he says - 16 acres of land behind the family's home. "Since Howard Dean wouldn't quit, I wouldn't quit, either."Eiden hopes that, as people follow the current primary "roadshow," they'll take time to look back. "We have all these candidates who are singing Howard Dean's song four years later," he says. "That's a real tribute to the folks who made up that movement."See the full content of this document
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Makers of Dean and Me and Frozen River in the Limelight
A handful of Vermont filmmakers reaped the fruits of their labors last weekend. On Saturday evening, out west in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Festival's grand-jury prize went to Frozen River, a gritty drama about a bo...
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