Low and Behold
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Low and Behold is a 2007 feature film
by director Zack Godshall. It was produced by Sidetrack Films
. The film uses neorealistic
and documentary
techniques interwoven with actors in fictional narrative story into a post-Hurricane Katrina
ravaged New Orleans. The film won Best Narrative Feature at the International Rome Film Festival and the Best Feature award at the New Orleans Film Festival.
The story follows Turner Stull (played by Barlow Jacobs), a young insurance claims adjuster who arrives in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Turner finds it difficult to deal first hand with the pain and personal loss in the claims he must file. Eventually he meets a free-spirited local man named Nixon (played by Eddie Rouse) who is looking for his lost dog. Nixon and Turner agree to help each other and form an unlikely friendship along the way.
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
by director Zack Godshall. It was produced by Sidetrack Films
Sidetrack Films
Sidetrack Films is a film production company based out of Brooklyn, New York formed by Ravi Anne in 2005. Since its formation many noteworthy and award winning documentaries and feature-length narrative films have been produced by the company.-Productions:...
. The film uses neorealistic
Neorealism (art)
In art, neorealism was established by the ex-Camden Town Group painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman at the beginning of World War I. They set out to explore the spirit of their age through the shapes and colours of daily life...
and documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
techniques interwoven with actors in fictional narrative story into a post-Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
ravaged New Orleans. The film won Best Narrative Feature at the International Rome Film Festival and the Best Feature award at the New Orleans Film Festival.
The story follows Turner Stull (played by Barlow Jacobs), a young insurance claims adjuster who arrives in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Turner finds it difficult to deal first hand with the pain and personal loss in the claims he must file. Eventually he meets a free-spirited local man named Nixon (played by Eddie Rouse) who is looking for his lost dog. Nixon and Turner agree to help each other and form an unlikely friendship along the way.