Trailer for "LIMBO"
After winning the 25k Grant from the Vimeo Awards, Director Eliot Rausch partnered with Producer Mark Schwartz and the Dreamers of Los Angeles to create LIMBO. This 19 minute film exposes the lives of 3 undocumented students, living in the US without legal status. Never having touched a camera, the 3 students were gifted with a small handycam and trained for half a day by Lukas Korver and Matt B. Taylor. They were asked to film everyday for 3 months. Through their lens, this is their story.
Ever since Chris Milk's Johnny Cash project, I've been really interested in crowd-sourcing and collaborative projects. In such projects, the role of the filmmaker transforms into that of a curator who uses technology to bring together people from around the world (often non filmmakers) to help produce a story.
Such methods are effectively used in Limbo. What better way to tell the story of the undocumented then by allowing them to document themselves? I would love to produce something like this someday and I can't wait to see the final product!
