Good Storytelling

Wikipedia describes a “documentary” as a documenting of reality…cinema’s portrayal of observing life and interpreting the modern world. Where the real and the raw are so much better than actors or fictitious substitutes. This is what we love about documentary films; the portrayal of life. Lives just like ours, but due to some extraordinary circumstance are now being captured on film. Such is November Requiem. A gritty true story about the sinking of the Carl Bradley back in the late 1950’s, where 33 of 35 crewmen perished. Two-thirds of this crew were from the same small harbor town in Northern Michigan, and the impact those deaths had on this rural community is still felt today. Good storytelling, good cinematography, better history.