Homeless Veteran Albert Lewis photographs his life and sheds light on the support of his community.
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Directed By Emile Bokaer, Produced By Emile Bokaer
Winner of the Perspectives Award
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Emile Bokaer, Director Emile Bokaer comes from a family of teachers, organic farmers and artists in Ithaca, New York. As a kid, he worked at his parents’ art house movie theater Fall Creek Pictures. Emile studied mathematics and English at Oberlin College, where he fell in love with documentary filmmaking. He has made films about a small town skateboard park, the relationships between various institutional lifestyles, collectives of Guatemalan women who work to preserve native species of corn and a technical theater program at a girl’s school in Cleveland. He also collaborated with Geoff Pingree on the forthcoming documentary feature, The Return of Elder Pingree. Currently, he is pursuing an MFA in documentary film and video at Stanford…...