First look at HEDGEROW

April 12, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BRISTOL, R.I. –– This year’s Roving Eye documentary film festival will feature an early look at BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society, the first-ever feature-length movie about the secret world of old-money Newport that will premiere at the 2010 Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Writer/producer G. Wayne Miller and director David Bettencourt will be on hand April 25 at Roger Williams University to screen selections from the film and join RWU professor Edward Delaney to talk about the making of HEDGEROW and participate in a more general discussion, “The Art of Creative Storytelling.”
Part history, part contemporary look, HEDGEROW is told through the focus of Eileen Gillespie Slocum, Newport’s last grand dame, who died in the summer of 2008. Slocum’s family has granted the filmmakers exclusive access to her archives and private Bellevue Avenue estate, where much of the film was shot over the last year.
The Roving Eye event will be at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 25, at Roger Williams’ Global Heritage Hall 01. It is free and open to the public.
HEDGEROW, scheduled for PBS broadcast, is now in post-production. A second advance look and discussion will be staged in Newport on Wednesday, April 28. This session is by invitation only. Those interested in attending should contact Eagle Peak Media for time, location and other details.
BEHIND THE HEDGEROW is the second title from non-profit Eagle Peak Media. ON THE LAKE, its first title, premiered in February 2009 to critical acclaim. PBS broadcasts in major national markets began in March 2009 and continue today.
For news, links to the HEDGEROW blog and Facebook page, and more, visit the Hedgerow site.
More information about Roving Eye at the festival site.

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For now, some links.

I will periodically post here, about my various creative projects -- but mostly my writing, and writing in general. My writing at the moment is preoccupying me -- the Claiborne Pell Biography, A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR, is moving along very nicely.
So for now, if you are interested, some links to other blogs and pages that in one way or another, have something to do with what I do...
-- The Works of G. Wayne Miller, my web site.
-- A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR, the official page.
-- Eagle Peak Media, home of the documentary movies I make with Dave Bettencourt, with links to ON THE LAKE: -- Life and Love in a Distant Place, which enjoyed great reviews and PBS broadcast in 2009, and BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society, premiering in August 2010 at the Rhode Island International Film festival.