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Being in Austin
Tuesday in Austin, where I spent most of a week attending the (SXSW) South By Southwest Film Festival on behalf of Winter’s Bone. The film was very well received at SXSW. It was not in competition, but was listed as a … Continue reading
Marideth quoted in Slant magazine
…”I had trouble thinking people could come in from New York and make an authentic movie about the Ozarks, but I have to say they did it,” said Marideth Sisco in the Q&A after Winter’s Bone. Sisco, who lives near the … Continue reading
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In Austin Texas
Marideth is in Austin Texas at the South-By-Southwest Music and Film Festival for the showing of Winter’s Bone. We should hear more from her in a couple days! Meet the film maker Debra Granik.
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Excerpts from Costa Rica Journals: Talamanca: Chapter 17
I am awakened long before dawn by a sound that is pure hoodoo, a low throaty chant that rises to a peak and then falls away, only to begin again seconds later. Fortunately I have been briefed about the howler … Continue reading
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Excerpts from Costa Rica Journals: Monteverde: Chapter 13
I awaken to a “chilly” 55-degree sun-filled Monday in Monteverde, northwest of the capital city of Costa Rica on a mountainside overlooking Nicoya Bay from an altitude of 4,500 feet. It is my 21st day in Central America, with just … Continue reading
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Excerpts from Costa Rica Journals: Panama City: Chapter 7
Like a picture through a lens out of focus, it is difficult, even while sitting here, to capture the workings of an institution the caliber of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) against the backdrop of this teeming and sometimes … Continue reading
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Costa Rica
In 2002, The West Plains Daily Quill received a $5,000 grant from the U.S. chapter of the International Press Institute. A representative from the newsroom was charged with the assignment to go somewhere outside the U.S., preferably somewhere where they … Continue reading
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