Rocha settles in for WINTER
February 4th, 2010
Leaving downstate Illinois behind to weather Chicago, Alaric Rocha possibly never imagined migrating back south after making his first suburban short, THE RECIPE, a year ago. Yet, the former Champaign filmmaker has done just that to shoot a follow-up called WINTER IN LOUISIANA starting tomorrow, February 5, in and near the backwoods property of his parents, Gil and Sherry Rocha of Oreana. Production will continue through Sunday on the project, which involves a prisoner’s escape from a chain gang and pursuit by guards and bloodhounds. We won’t spill who exactly comes to the man’s aid in the climax, but luckily a skinny chimney fails to appear as an obstacle on the escape route.
Not surprisingly, Rocha turned an ear towards music to find inspiration for the current Blue Bassoon Pictures film, in this case a late Eighties recording combining the seasonal standard “Jingle Bells” with an African American spiritual, “Children Go Where I Send Thee,” played in an acoustic “New England” style. “My family and I always think [the song] sounds like a prisoner from the old South running from hound dogs and then getting scooped up [unexpectedly],” he explains to C-U Blogfidential, although we’ll skim certain details to preserve the surprise. “I took the story and made it a bit more serious, kind of a BRAZIL idea where imagination saves a person from the pressure and darkness of reality.”
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