Barry Levinson may make Chesapeake Bay movie
Tucked into Laura Vozzella's column today was a mention of a possible new documentary on the Chesapeake Bay. It is a new project by Baltimore's own Barry Levinson.
Laura reports that the filmmaker is in talks with state and federal officials about funding, though he said he plans to make the movie with or without public dollars. He's not sure if the film would be for the theaters or for cable.
"I've just been trying to think of a way to really kind of get people's attention to the potential disaster that is just ahead in terms of the Chesapeake Bay," Levinson told The Sun."This can't be allowed to die. Forty percent of it's already dead."
He has vacationed on the bay and has relatives who live there year round.
Think this project should be publicly funded? Think the issue needs national attention?
Photo of Barry Levinson on the set of Wag the Dog courtesy of Barry Levinson
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Levinson is a fine film maker and I'm sure he would make an excellent film on Chesapeake Bay, the many threats to its health, and the solutions to end these threats.
I hope he takes a look at Tom Horton's excellent report for the Abell Foundation -- Growing! Growing! Gone! The Chesapeake Bay and the Myth of Endless Growth, Abell Foundation, August 2008
Full text: http://www.abell.org/pubsitems/env_Growing_808.pdf
Public funds for the project? Ok if really needed, but I suspect he can raise the money privately.
Posted by: Ernest Lowe | June 26, 2009 2:30 PM