The End of the Road
by Tai Uhlmann
The End of the Road
by Tai Uhlmann
Take a ride to the End of the Road. From political upheaval, drugs, sex and folk music, American's fled Vietnam war era USA for Canada and encountered challenges of another kind. Struggling to live off the land, earn a wage and create new family, this community survived and continues to grow.
Take a ride to the End of the Road. From political upheaval, drugs, sex and folk music, American's fled Vietnam war era USA for Canada and encountered challenges of another kind. Struggling to live off the land, earn a wage and create new family, this community survived and continues to grow.
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About The Project
TAI UHLMANN
I know my subjects because I am my subjects. From my past films I was “Bad Jews in My Kitchen”, which explores the intersections of being Jewish and Queer. I was “For the Love of Dolly”, which captures the heart wrenching exploits of diehard Dolly Parton fans. I am at “The End of the Road” my current film which tells the tales of escapees from Vietnam era USA and their search for Utopia in nowhere Canada during 1960’s and 70’s. I was born here, in Lund, British Columbia at the very end of Highway 101 to parents looking for a clothing optional, garden of Eden far from their previous incarnation as city slickers from New York and Chicago.
Life evolves and though I am now a married mother of 2 and no longer queer and I don’t listen to Dolly Parton as often as I used to and I loathe tie dye, I will always be a hippy. I lived in NYC for years, an urban existence in all respects and yet, as though a transparent poncho still draped my shoulders, I was still labeled a hippy.
Roots are strong. After having children, the concrete jungle of the city became inhospitable as I sought out the dirt roads and forest hideouts from my childhood for which to raise my kids.
It is from this place that my husband and I embark on our film “The End of the Road”, for now we are ourselves living it.
The vision for the film began when I was 19 years old and heard the story of how one of my mom’s friends found her way to Lund and I thought everyone here must have a story. They do. Their arrivals were haphazard, humorous and unconventional to say the least and what they found here transformed them. A vast archive of Super 8 film, old photos and artwork will allow the viewer full immersion into life as it was while being taken on a psychedelic free-for-all visual experience using new editing techniques by my husband, Theo Angell. In the spirit of collaboration and community this film will incorporate my personal hands-on documentary interview style with Theo’s stunning visuals. I consider myself the director/producer aka Diducer and Theo as the director/editor aka the Diretitor for this project.
THEO ANGELL
I often take an autobiographical approach to my films. I love the aspects of reality augmentation coupled with a clarifying of the mythos of my life and the characters who make up it's cast. I see both these 'characters' and myself in new ways once we are placed in a defined story. Perhaps it is objectification but in a constructive way. I always come back to my phrase "myth building" in regards to the telling of personal stories and creating the legend contained in each of our lives. My first full-length film "The Jew Who Stole Christmas" was based on my reality as a Christmas decorator in New York City. I brought my camera to work everyday to film that reality but at the same time I was building an alternate reality by dressing up as an Orthodox Jew while on the job. What happened was a confluence of supporting and unimagined scenes coming together in a totally improvised and original way to create a form that came to be called "Mockumentary". What excites me about making "The End of the Road" is the opportunity to explore my adopted community of Lund BC, by joining it's collective media of memory (photos, film, artwork, stories) while applying an editing technique I call "Quilting". Video "Quilting" is much like making a blanket of the same name by using many "patches" or layers of video, old film and photographs and putting them up all together on one screen to create a new landscape where multiple scenes are happening simultaneously, much like the reality of a community! I will incorporate this technique throughout the film for it's advanced storytelling potential and also it's original aesthetic value. Samples of this "Quilting" can be seen in our submitted trailer. The chance to breathe life into the hidden gems of archival ephemera is the dream of any historical documentarian.
Incentives
$50
You will receive a set of 5 original postcards by artist Theo Angell.
$75
You will receive a T-shirt designed by a local artist.
$100
You will receive a T-shirt designed by a local artist and a set of 5 original postcards by artist Theo Angell.
$250
You will receive 2 T-shirts designed by a local artist and a set of 5 original postcards by artist Theo Angell.
$500
You will receive a coffee table book filled with photos from the film and memorable quotes and a T-shirt designed by a local artist.
$1,000
The Lund package! A coffee table book filled with photos from the film and memorable quotes, 2 T-shirts designed by a local artist and a set of 5 original postcards by artist Theo Angell.
$5,000
We will give you an Associate Producer credit on the film as well as a T-shirt designed by a local artist!
$10,000
Ever wanted to be an Executive Producer on a movie? Now's your chance! We will give you an Executive Producer credit plus the coffee table book filled with photos from the film and memorable quotes.
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$50
You will receive a set of 5 original postcards by artist Theo Angell.
$75
You will receive a T-shirt designed by a local artist.
$100
You will receive a T-shirt designed by a local artist and a set of 5 original postcards by artist Theo Angell.
$250
You will receive 2 T-shirts designed by a local artist and a set of 5 original postcards by artist Theo Angell.
$500
You will receive a coffee table book filled with photos from the film and memorable quotes and a T-shirt designed by a local artist.
$1,000
The Lund package! A coffee table book filled with photos from the film and memorable quotes, 2 T-shirts designed by a local artist and a set of 5 original postcards by artist Theo Angell.
$5,000
We will give you an Associate Producer credit on the film as well as a T-shirt designed by a local artist!
$10,000
Ever wanted to be an Executive Producer on a movie? Now's your chance! We will give you an Executive Producer credit plus the coffee table book filled with photos from the film and memorable quotes.
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Current Team
About This Team
Director/Producer
Tai Uhlmann is the child of hippies who went on to become a filmmaker in New York City. After having children of her own she headed back home to Lund, British Columbia, “the end of the road”, to raise her kids in nature instead of a 99 cent store. Tai has been working in the film and television industry for the past 15 years and has directed both short and feature length documentaries including the cult classic, “For The Love of Dolly”, about Dolly Parton’s most fervent fans. Her work has been screened internationally, is available on Netflix and has been written about in the New York Times, Variety, BUST Magazine, the Village Voice and the novel Starstruck.
In her career Tai Uhlmann has worked in virtually every sector of the film industry from commercials to feature films, from short documentary and dramatic films to series television and from industrial and corporate material to educational films and animation. Tai is a distinguished Visual Effects Producer and Post Production Supervisor having worked on films including Easy Rider, Raging Bulls (Cannes, BBC, Trio), The Kid Stays in the Picture (Sundance, HBO), Live From New York, the First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live (NBC and Emmy Nomination), SNL in the ‘80s, 90’s and 2000’s (NBC), Crazy Love (Sundance, Magnolia Pictures), Mrs, Harris (HBO) and many more.
Cinematographer/Editor
Raised in a house without a television, Theo Angell’s groundbreaking video art has been exhibited at Lincoln Center NY, MOMA NY, Anthology Film Archives NY, Istanbul Biennale, PICA Portland, Hammer Museum LA, Pacific Film Archive, MassArt Film Society, The Museum of Jurassic Technology LA, DIA X Initiative NY and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music).
Theo is a filmmaker, video artist, musician and radio show producer. His work has included animation, feature length films and live mobile video projections in both urban and rural settings. He has directed, shot and edited music videos, portraiture of both people and places, and both single and four channel gallery and museum installations. His talents earned him a slot in the Leonard Cohen “New Skin for the Old Ceremony” exhibition.
Collaborator/Cinematographer
Claudia Medina began her career as a filmmaker sixteen years ago assisting acclaimed Canadian director Nettie Wild on her feature documentary "A Place Called Chiapas". Since then she has worked alongside a number of respected Canadian filmmakers as a writer, editor, production coordinator, field producer and shooter. Claudia has been the recipient of numerous awards from the Canada Council of the Arts and BC Arts Council for her short dramatic films she has written, produced and directed. For the past seven years she has also been collaborating with artists of different disciplines to design and mix live visual projections for performers throughout Canada and Europe. She also develops and implements curriculum for workshops that combine community development, conflict resolution and ecological awareness through filmmaking to diverse groups nationally and internationally. Claudia holds a master’s degree in Visual Culture from the University of Barcelona with a focus on visual culture and ecology. She is currently developing a long form documentary, "Future Is Now", as well as making short documentaries that give new perspective to the local socio cultural context of her current place of residence, Powell River, British Columbia.
Producer
Sara Blum is an empowering leader with over forty years of experience in non-profit, public, and private sector organizations. As an experienced community development professional and adult educator, she has created and implemented many programs that addressed child abuse prevention, peer support, inclusion, and cultural diversity. In 2011, working with a group of film professionals, Sara produced the award winning documentary, “Defining Diversity, Creating Community” and became hooked on filmmaking. She is now working to assist local filmmakers in applying for funding to produce their films and enjoys being part of the filmmaking world.
Design/Animation
Molly Schwartz animates, designs, composites, codes, and creates special effects for many different types of projects. Her freelance work ranges from documentary film titles, film poster design, motion graphics, animation, compositing and special effects, installation design and site specific projection mapping. Her team (she was lead animator and designer) won a Sundance Special Jury Award for Animation January 2014 for the documentary film Watchers of the Sky, directed by Edet Belzberg. Recent film projects include Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, A Good Job: Stories from the FDNY, Back on Board, The Abominable Crime, Code Debugging the Gender Gap and Cancer: Emperor of All Maladies. Schwartz is an adjunct professor teaching at NYU's ITP and she also shows her animated videos, drawings, interactive works in public art commissions, installations, exhibitions and festivals worldwide.
Design/Animation
Nathaniel Akin is the Creative Director at Oxen Media. Award winning director with work spanning film, television print and online. As a director at Global Mechanic he guided the production of commercial campaigns for a number of clients including Bell Mobility, Kelloggs, Bank of America, Converse and Nestle. He helped to create the first interactive campaign making use of YouTube's internal linking feature for Silk and developed custom pipelines for the production of animation in specific styles including 8-bit pixel, ASCII, cross stitch and white board
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