| DIRECTOR: |
Michael Uys e Lexy Lovell |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Michael Uys e Lexy Lovell |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Samuel Henriques |
| PRODUCER: |
Michael Uys e Lexy Lovell |
| FESTIVALS: |
Filadélfia, Sundance e Santa
Barbara |
| PRODUCTION: |
The American History
Project/Out of Blue Prod.
300 Hicks Street – Brooklyn - Nova York
11201
Tel: 00 1 718 260 8012
Fax: 00 1 718 802 0699 |
| WORLD SALES: |
The American History
Project/Out of Blue Prod.
300 Hicks Street – Brooklyn - Nova York
11201
Tel: 00 1 718 260 8012
Fax: 00 1 718 802 0699 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Riding the Rails
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Col. e P & B. 72 min.,
1997 |
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MICHAEL
UYS
Graduated in
Cinema and Journalism by the University of New
York. He produced and directed Assault on
Empire State Mountain shown in several
European festivals.
LEXY
LOVELL
Graduated in
History by Yale University. He is producer and
director and made Getting Ready for Later,
awarded the Silver Hugh in Chicago.
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Documentary
inspired in the book Boy and Girl Tramps of America
that revives the story of the 'road kids'. In the
thirties, soon after the Great American Depression, these
kids would take to the road in search of a better place
to live or, quite simply, to find a place where they
could eat and then move on once more. Two hundred and
fifty thousand teenagers are thought to have left home at
this time, in flight from the misery and hunger that
assailed their families. To make the documentary,
directors placed advertisements in the American
newspapers and magazines looking for persons who had had
experiences of this type at that time. Over three
thousand persons sent in letters. Ten of these stories
are told in Riding the Rails.