Organic Process

SOLO JOURNALIST & DOCUMENTARY ARTIST Farrah Hoffmire was inspired by grassroots organizing and volunteer efforts in the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina. She has traveled to New Orleans numerous times to create a solo work that is part art-vignette, part documentary film and part grassroots journalism.

In stark contrast to the failure and corruption stories that have dominated mass-media coverage, Falling Together introduces us to powerful people fighting to save lives, preserve culture and bring a sense of well-being back to New Orleans. Conceived as an ongoing, subscription-based platform to follow events in New Orleans as they unfold over the next few years, it also explores the ongoing complexities of rebuilding in areas of the city still severely damaged -- such as the Lower 9th Ward.  The film features music by Ani Difranco as well as some of New Orleans’s top musicians.

The film series has been featured at the:

• Oral History Association national conference (Little Rock, AR)
• Langston Hughes African American Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
• Lake Eden Arts Festival (Asheville, NC)
• Zeitgeist Film Series (Tulane University, New Orleans)
• Hurricane Katrina Campus Media Project (worldwide 2007-2008)
• ConvergeSouth 2007 Film Festival

Solo journalist and filmmaker Dylan Bergeson was still a college student when he spent four months in the occupied West Bank shooting the footage that would become his debut documentary This Body is a Prison. Originally intended as a senior project, this unflinching look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a sympathetic-but-apolitical lens has gathered critical acclaim ever since its release in May 2006.

Bergeson and OPP partnered in a distribution agreement in 2007.

Buy This Body is a Prison, Dylan Bergeson's powerful documentary on the Israeli-Palenstinian conflict, for unlimited showings on your campus on in your classroom.