Cozette and I screened “Borderland” at the London International Documentary Festival Thursday night. The film showed in a series called “Landscape & Memory“.

We had been to a very under attended screening of other films the night before so we were pleasantly surprised to have a full theater and a receptive audience. “Borderland played well and held it’s own in the program (…ok …it did better than hold it’s own…)

We are thrilled to be here and are learning lots about festivals, film and London!

Big Ben snap

Tower Bridge Snap

Cozette and I are off to London in a few days to screen “Borderland”.  Excited.

http://www.lidf.co.uk/film/borderland/

Cozette and I awoke to a bit of good news this morning.

Borderland, our film about the inner German border, was accepted into the The London International Documentary Festival.

It’s our first festival invite for the film. Looks like we may go to London!

borderland.com click image to go

Our site is up.

borderland – A film by Cozette Carroll & Julian Russell

Synopsis:

BORDERLAND is a short documentary film that  explores the cultural, historical and personal landscape of the inner German border 20 years after its fall.

Filmmakers Cozette Carroll and Julian Russell filmed along the former border collecting images and stories; creating a collage of memories from former East German citizens.

In Berlin, tourists photograph themselves in front of rusting relics trying to imagine the city divided. For those who lived through it the reunification of East and West Germany proved to be more complicated than the joyous images portrayed on the TV news.

What happened when socialist East Germany was enveloped by the West and what became of the 858 miles of fences, watch towers and death strips as nature began to reclaim the land?

www.borderlandfilm.com

East German watchtower in Darchau, Germany.

Cozette and I are*so close* to finishing our film; “Borderland”,  that looks back over the division and reuinification of Germany…so much work…

Details and a website will be up soon!