Making a documentary is difficult enough. Making one in the neverending days of summer in Alaska is a monumental challenge.
Luckily, Erica Sterne, director and producer of “Brooklyn/Alaska,” didn’t have to face it alone. She and the film’s crew were also following a dozen high-school participants in the Brooklyn To Alaska Project, all traveling to the remote reaches of America’s largest state.
The process of journeying from the nation’s most populous city to the distant mountain wilderness makes for an illustrative story of young adulthood. But Sterne explains that the story doesn’t end once Alaska is successfully navigated. The cross-section of young men that make up this pool of subjects have plenty to share about what it means to come of age in America, whether it’s near the Arctic or in the heart of Flatbush.
After taking the Project of the Week prize back in December,...
Luckily, Erica Sterne, director and producer of “Brooklyn/Alaska,” didn’t have to face it alone. She and the film’s crew were also following a dozen high-school participants in the Brooklyn To Alaska Project, all traveling to the remote reaches of America’s largest state.
The process of journeying from the nation’s most populous city to the distant mountain wilderness makes for an illustrative story of young adulthood. But Sterne explains that the story doesn’t end once Alaska is successfully navigated. The cross-section of young men that make up this pool of subjects have plenty to share about what it means to come of age in America, whether it’s near the Arctic or in the heart of Flatbush.
After taking the Project of the Week prize back in December,...
- 2/14/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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Brooklyn/Alaska
Logline: Three teenage boys from Brooklyn embark on an unlikely adventure through the Alaskan wilderness.
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“Brooklyn/Alaska” is a coming-of-age tale joining teenage boys from Brooklyn, New York on a once-in-a-lifetime trip through the remote Alaskan wilderness. We witness the natural world transform these young men as they overcome the physical and mental challenges of the great outdoors 5,000 miles from home. For a brief moment, the pressures of life — family drama, fear of violence on and off the streets — are swept away. “Brooklyn/Alaska” examines the environmental injustices preventing young black...
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Brooklyn/Alaska
Logline: Three teenage boys from Brooklyn embark on an unlikely adventure through the Alaskan wilderness.
Elevator Pitch:
“Brooklyn/Alaska” is a coming-of-age tale joining teenage boys from Brooklyn, New York on a once-in-a-lifetime trip through the remote Alaskan wilderness. We witness the natural world transform these young men as they overcome the physical and mental challenges of the great outdoors 5,000 miles from home. For a brief moment, the pressures of life — family drama, fear of violence on and off the streets — are swept away. “Brooklyn/Alaska” examines the environmental injustices preventing young black...
- 12/15/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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