Setting Up Kamp
Free film screening for students tonight
Filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmon — who have traveled the globe, from China to Mexico, telling stories of the dispossessed — will screen their documentaries today, October 16, and Friday, October 17, as part of the BU Cinematheque.
At 7 p.m. tonight, the documentary makers from Dallas, Tex., show Kamp Katrina (2007), a true story of a New Orleans blue-collar couple who turn their backyard into a campground for lost people after Katrina destroyed the city. Kamp Katrina follows Ms.Pearl, a 56-year-old Native American resident of the Upper 9th Ward, overthe course of six months.
On Friday at 7 p.m., Sabin and Redmon will screen their latest feature documentary, Intimidad (2008). The film is the result of several years of following a poor young Mexican couple who live across the border as they search obsessively for a decent life — work, a home, stability — for themselves and their child. This is a humbling, deeply moving humanist documentary, a mini-sized The Grapes of Wrath.
Screenings are being held at the College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Ave., Room B-05. Events are free to the BU community and friends.
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