Harlem director Jake Boritt is finishing up a new film - The Gettysburg Story for public television. This new documentary uses cutting edge technologies – including high definition radio control aerial drone cinematography, motion control time-lapse footage, dynamic digital geolocation graphic maps, and more – to capture the battlefield as never seen it before. The film is narrated by Stephen Lang (Gettysburg, Avatar). The Gettysburg Story will be broadcast on public television this summer and a Kickstarter campaign has been set up now to add more on to the post production work.
Those donating $150 reward on the Kickstarter campaign will be invited to the Sneak Preview. See a super secret special screening of The Gettysburg Story in the production team's studio space in Harlem and also discuss the film with the filmmakers. Plus a locally sourced dinner will be curated by the Highlands Dinner Club. PLUS all of the previous rewards.
Get more details and donate here through Kickstarter: LINK
Thanks for sharing Ulysses. Along with myself, the co-producer and narrator are both Harlem based as well. One of the main characters of our film, a hero of the Battle of Gettysburg, is Union General Winfield Scott Hancock, whose bronze bust stands in the midst of Hancock Place at St. Nicholas and 123rd. Abraham Lincoln, whose statue stands in the NYCHA Lincoln Houses off Madison Ave, came to Gettysburg and called for "a new birth of freedom." And the great civil rights leader Frederick Douglass came to Gettysburg in 1869 after the Civil War was over to deliver a speech. His statue is of course at Frederick Douglass Circle at 110th Street and Frederick Douglass Blvd.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fantastic film. Well worth supporting!
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing project, especially important as Harlem along with the rest of the country, celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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