Synopsis:
When Clouds Clear is about the history and struggle of a remote Ecuadorian community and their radical fight for survival against global mining interest. Set in the isolated cloud forests of the northern Ecuadorian Andes Mountains, the film is narrated by the founders and children of Junín who depict how the village’s daily life has been affected by copper that were discovered beneath their land. These once-peaceful farmers find themselves thrust into a dangerous world of corruption, splintered households, murder and arson as they fight to protect their land and families.

Website: http://www.clearfilms.org/html/when_clouds_clear.html
Trailer: http://www.clearfilms.org/html/when_clouds_clear.html

Bios:
DANIELLE BERNSTEIN- Director- Producer- Cinematographer
Danielle Bernstein is a New York based filmmaker from Atlanta, Ga. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine arts and graduated in 2006, the same year she helped found the production company Clear Films and began working as Co-director/producer & cinematographer of the award-winning documentary When Clouds Clear. She is currently producing another documentary, Mothers of a Nation and designing comprehensive outreach models for three social justice films including Mothers of a Nation, When Clouds Clear and Vessel. Danielle is committed to working on projects that concentrate on creatively increasing awareness, visible change and empowerment for both subjects and audience. Her focus in documentary is inspired by the belief that a little bit can go a very long way. Her next directorial project is Bayview Hunters Point, scheduled for completion in 2010.

“It is a really exciting time for media art and film. The market is rapidly changing and more and more filmmakers are making the message of their work into a movement; as a result we are finally starting to see change actually taking place in communities as well as governments.”

ANNE SLICK- Director- Producer
Anne Slick was born and raised in Atlanta, GA and began her filmmaking career while in college at NYU. She has worked on the production of projects such as Martin Scorsese’s “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,” a documentary about the early years of the famous musician and archiving the experimental filmmaker Jack Smith’s library of work. Anne has directed and produced a range of experimental documentary shorts and film installations using 16MM, super 8 and video, but When Clouds Clear is her directorial debut for a feature- length documentary. Anne is currently studying for masters in architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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