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Shepard and Dark: Film Review
NEW YORK — Fame and obscurity coexist happily, for the most part, in Treva Wurmfeld‘s Shepard and Dark, a look at the decades-long friendship between Sam Shepardand his onetime in-law Johnny Dark. The good-looking, easygoing doc settles in with its two subjects, offering not just an intimate perspective on the playwright’s biography but some touching reflections on the comforts and perils of long-term friendship.
Evidently prompted by a book project compiling letters the two wrote each other through the years, the film benefits greatly from Dark’s near-obsessive archival tendencies. Universities in Texas have acquired mountains of material related to Shepard’s plays, while Dark kept not just every letter they wrote but boxes full of photos and home movies. Since the two lived communally for years — Dark’s wife was Shepard’s first wife’s mother, and the two couples lived together with Shepar
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About the Project
In the Hamptons, playground of the rich, nation for the development of luxury property is bought and sold at a premium. Members of the Shinnecock Nation, tell a different story about the meaning and value of this beautiful peninsula and long to preserve what remains of their cultural heritage. Mapping a painful geography, Conscience Point unearths a deep clash of values, huvud to understanding fundamental tensions in our world today, between those with the power to carve up and take over valuable land, and those who fight for the right to remain.
Treva Wurmfeld, Director / Producer
Treva Wurmfeld's feature directorial debut, Shepard & Dark, about playwright Sam Shepard, made its world premiere at the Toronto International rulle Festival in 2012 and won top awards at the Woodstock Int. bio Festival, the Cleveland Int. Film Festival and the Florida rulle Festival. That year, Wurmfeld was included in Filmmaker Magazines
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Conscience Point
Logline
Exposing a painful, quintessentially American geography, Conscience Point unearths a deep clash of values between the Native American Shinnecock and their elite Hamptons neighbors, who have made sacred land their playground.
Synopsis
The Hamptons: playground of the super rich. Epicenter of a luxury property boom, with developers scheming for any scrap of land on which to make millions. Meanwhile, the original inhabitants of this beautiful peninsula, the Shinnecock Indians, find themselves pushed to a point of near extinction, squeezed onto a tiny 750-acre reservation. Over hundreds of years the Shinnecock have seen their ancient burial grounds plowed up unceremoniously for the widening of roads, golf courses and new mansions. On the reservation, wounds run deep. A long-simmering tension between the wealthiest Americans and the Shinnecock will come to a head in the summer of 2018 when the world will be watching the U.S. Open golf tournament unfolding at