Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
United States
Project Type: Documentary
Runtime: 26 minutes, 5 seconds
Completion Date: December 30, 1978
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Shooting Format: 16mm
Aspect Ratio: 4×3
Film Color: Color
First-time Filmmaker: No
Student Project: No
Runtime: 26 minutes, 5 seconds
Directed by: Steve Rosen
Overview:
The history of Monterey’s Sardine Fishing, told entirely in the words of the fishermen and their families, using acquired 8mm and 16mm, without resorting to a single still photo. Made in 1978, the film is as much a part of Monterey’s history as the fishing industry was then… The film has never been seen outside of The Monterey Peninsula.
Director Biography – Steve Rosen:
Steve Rosen graduated from UCLA’s Motion Picture Division in 1967, continuing in graduate school in ethnographic film. As an undergraduate he’d filmed David Holden’s Huelga, with Cesar Chavez, as well as numerous TV commercials and rock and roll films, with director B.W.L. Norton. In 1968 Steve moved to the Monterey Peninsula, where he produced DDT-Knowing It Survives Us (NBC, 1969), introduced by Sander Vanocur; and SOS-Save Our Seas (NBC, 1970), introduced by Eddie Albert. He then spent two and a half years following marijuana smugglers, filming and editing Bob Grosvenor’s feature length cult documentary Acapulco Gold, (Grosvenor Films, 1973). In 1978 he produced Silver Harvest (Monterey Savings & Loan, 1978); then On Location, East Of Eden (ABC, 1981) featuring Jane Seymour; and Solving Medical Mysteries (Media Medicine, 1984), narrated by William Windom. In 1987, Steve partnered with producer Terri DeBono to form Mac And Ava Motion Pictures; among their many acclaimed documentaries are: Time Captured In Paintings (Monterey Museum of Art, 1993) narrated by Jack Lemmon; Beyond Barbed Wire (PBS, 1996), narrated by Pat Morita; The Roots Of California Photography (PBS, 1999), narrated by Jack Lemmon; Accidental Hero – Room 408 (PBS, 2002); My Name Is Belle (PBS, 2006), directed by Terri DeBono; Boyhood Shadows (PBS, 2011); Looking For An Audience (2011); and Leaving The Fields Behind (Hartnell College, 2017).
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