Documentary filmmaker Jon Bowermaster has a fine blog up today about Louisiana’s relationship with oil and water. Bowermaster has been working on a film set in the Bayou State for the past two years, exploring the connections between man and the water. It begins, he says, with one oil spill, in the Mississippi River, and now, just as he was wrapping it up, he had to come back to update the film, SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories, with footage of the current disaster in the Gulf.
... written by Jason D. Faulk , May 17, 2010 - 05:39 pm
Excerpts of Bowermaster's OCEANS 8 program can be viewed from time to time on LINK TV. Unfortunately, the viewer-supported channel is only available in Lafayette over DirecTV. On the plus side, full videos are available online at www.linktv.org
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