Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
First screened in January 2025
Directors: Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher. Documentary about the threatened loss of an Iowa farm that's been in the same family for over a century.
Photo © 1995 Artistic License / Forensic Films
In Brief:
Sturdy, affecting dispatch. Still: lose voiceover, maximize real-time footage, whole film improves.
VOR:
③
I've seen richer, more detailed treatments of similar stories, though the personal POV helps. Not quite a pathbreaker in documentary form.
Grade:
B
Academy Award Nominations:
Best Documentary Feature
Other Awards:
Sundance Film Festival
: Grand Jury Prize (Documentary); Audience Award (Documentary)
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