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La Frontière, with Megan Ruffe
The border between the United States and Canada is the longest international border in the world. Six-hundred and eleven of those miles distinguish Maine from its northern neighbors Quebec and New Brunswick, dividing towns, homes, and nations that existed long before the two it separates today. La Frontière is a poetic documentary portrait of these borderlands and their stories, exploring a liminal space that isn’t either-or but its own place in-between.
La Frontière premiered on Maine Public Television in 2024 and was nominated for a BNI Emmy. It is represented for educational distribution by New Day Films.
Katy Haas (Director & Producer) is a documentary filmmaker and photographer from NH.
Megan Ruffe (Director & Producer) is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY.
Lindsay Taylor Jackson (Director of Photography) is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer.
Jared Ames (Cinematographer & Consulting Producer) has worked on numerous award-winning documentary films.
Skogafoss
The ropes loosed and the small crew worked deftly winching chains, pulling the soggy mooring cords back up on to the ship. Skogafoss, a 120-plus meter cargo ship from Iceland, slipped out into the bay. As the last of the ropes were secured in the forward deck, Boatswain turned and said, “This is our bread and butter.” We are all part of this global network – the contents of our stores, homes and closets show the results of the shipping industry. But we rarely glimpse the world of work that makes our globalized lives possible; the people on ships who move goods across oceans everyday: the work they do maintaining the ships, the idle hours biding time between shifts and ports spent half a world from homes and family, navigating the open ocean. This film is a glimpse into life onboard.
Skogafoss is the visually poetic story of the North Atlantic crossing of a cargo ship from Iceland. Independently produced by Katy Haas and filmed in 2013 with the cooperation of the international crew and Icelandic shipping company.
Artwork by Andrew Shea
The Island and The Whale
With expert interviews, explores the current questions and debate in Iceland surrounding the country's recently revived practice of commercial whaling. Nearly 100 years after becoming one of the first nations in the world to ban whaling in 1915, it is now one of the few nations of the world that permits and is developing the practice. The debate within Iceland goes beyond environmental and economic concern, and is often drawn along lines of nationalism on this northern, volcanic island that has been independent for just seventy years. The Island and The Whale shows the 2013 whaling season and processing within the context and history of whaling and the ways in which this highly controversial practice is discussed in Iceland today.
Watch the trailer here, and the full film here.
Here more from composer and performer of the original score, Andrew Tyson at: andrewtysonmusic.com
And for more about poster designer Andrew Shea and his work, look at: http://www.manydesign.org/
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