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First film, first award. Jeremy and Jesse Ververka, two brothers who produced and directed "China: The Rebirth of an Empire", won the FAN award for best documentary at the first annual Astoria-Long Island City Film Festival last week. The festival, which ran from Oct 22-24th, had a successful launch. Film lovers turned out to see documentaries, feature films, short films, and super short films. There were also script readings and panel discuss
Casting a vote, is that a point you wanted to make in this film?
Casting a vote is important. We wanted to make young people feel that they have a role
in the democratic process. Whether they could physically vote or not. We wanted to
show that they were engaged in the process.
How long did it take you to make this film?
We started in November 2007 and finished in early 2009.
This insightful, intelligent documentary which runs just under 59 minutes, is directed by Meghan Shea and co-produced with Michael Rogers. This film is really a video education program. In it, cameras are given to youngsters in 3 schools as disparate as one can image. One of the classes is from Lungtenzampa Middle School in Thimphu, Bhutan, about as far away from the United States as one can get.
