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To commemorate Pat Barberot’s 65th anniversary as a big band
leader, his daughter commissioned director Alan Berg to produce
a short documentary with the assistance of Bruce Raeburn at the
Tulane Historic Jazz Archive. Alan and director of photography
Matthew Franklin began work in May 2004. The short they
produced with Austin musician Troy Campbell won the audience
award at the Austin Film Festival in the fall of 2004. Noted producer
Anne Walker-McBay came aboard at the festival and work
immediately began on expanding the piece into a feature length
film. The team shot for the next year, wrapping production at Pat’s
65th anniversary party in June 2005. As we were editing, Katrina hit. We knew immediately that many of the people we profiled lived in the flooded neighborhoods, and yet for two weeks we were unable to contact anyone. Finally the bandleader’s daughter, Shelley, called on a cell phone to let us know that the family was fine but the club had wind and water damage. In early December 2005, roughly four months after the storm, the Jefferson Orleans re-opened and we revisited the people we’d documented over the past two years. In June 2006, we premiered the film at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and went on to present it as part of the Austin Film Festival, the Ozark Foothills Film Festival, the Show-Me Missouri International Film Festival and the AFI Dallas Film Festival. A Place to Dance will air on PBS stations around the country beginning in May of 2007. |
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