Race to the White House: Whitelash
Filmmakers Anna Kauffman and Eric Paul Fournier followed Senator Barack Obama throughout his candidacy asking Americans their take on race relations in the United States fifty years after the start of the civil rights movement. They continue to follow race relations in the U.S., updating the narrative as our nation's Black Lives Matter comes to the forefront as we head into the 2020 elections.
Eric Paul Fournier's films, shorts and commercials have won numerous awards and screened at film festivals throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
Festivals include: Sundance, San Francisco Int'l Asian American FF, Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Hawaii and Newport RI Int'l Film Festivals, Full Frame Documentary FF, the International Documentary Association's "Doctober”, the Independent Feature Project's "IFFM" market/festival in NYC as well as the Sydney, Berlin, Tokyo and Bilboa Int'l Doc Festivals.
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Choose to Reuse: Breaking Away from a Disposal Lifestyle with Reusable and Sustainable Practices
Anna Kauffman has been producing corporate videos, films and television commercials for most of her career. A California native who is passionate about the environment, she decided to fundraise for a project of addressing plastic pollution and marine debris.
Sea of Changes [working title] Producer, Anna has been picking up marine debris on beaches around the world for as long as she can remember. After an unusually wet and wild winter in Northern California, Anna found herself picking up an inordinate amount of single use plastic on Ocean Beach. Once she joined Instagram she realized she was not alone … others around the globe were finding similar amounts of plastic waste, creating artwork and sharing with like-minded individuals and organizations around the world. The seed had been planted.
Anna plans to bring awareness and change behavior at this critical time in our throwaway society. She plans to create PSAs, a short documentary as well as an educational outreach program using real life champions dedicated to the health of our waterways.
You can follow Anna on Instagram @anna.kauffman
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