Episode 42: "Scheme Birds" and Spending Years on a Documentary
Lass is More with Josh Lasser
English - April 30, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutes - 19.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTV & Film Arts Visual Arts media film movies television Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Directors Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin have spent years putting together the documentary, "Scheme Birds." The piece is showing this year at the Tribeca Film Festival and follows a young woman, Gemma, who is growing up in a housing project in Scotland.
What does it take to spend years on such a project not knowing the outcome? Why follow this particular woman? What's next? The directors clue us in.