Gerrymandering

I don’t watch the show, but maybe I should - this review suggests that some major plot developments have stemmed from the gerrymandering of school districts.

I wonder how something like this might have fit into the film…

When you can, check out Redistricting the Nation which just launched today.  It’s instantly one of the coolest, most accessible and user-friendly sites about redistricting going (and I’m not just shilling because they linked us on their homepage).  We had the good fortune to interview Dana and Tamara from Avencia, the generator of the project, a few weeks ago and are working them into the cut now.  Try drawing a district, or check out your own district’s compactness.

Off to Chicago for the NCSL Redistricting conference tonight…

Just about one year ago today, I wrote this.  This is the one year anniversary of the beginning of production on Gerrymandering, and yesterday we sent a cut off to Sundance.  Not a bad year’s work. 

Two copies of Gerrymandering are on their way to Sundance for consideration.  Now, we wait.

Of course after screening this morning, I already have a page of notes and some restructuring ideas, but I think I’ll sit on those for a little while…

Rest on a special election being held today.  Interesting candidate breakdown.

Getting the DVDs ready to send off to Sundance, so there won’t be much more from me for the next few days.

We’re submitting a cut to Sundance on Wednesday and have been working around the clock for a few weeks now.  Key word: exhaustion.

Politics Magazine has a nice preview of redistricting in all fifty states.  I haven’t had a chance to go through the whole list yet, but I did notice that they linked Louisiana’s redistricting changes explicitly to Katrina.  This is something we’d hoped to do in the film, but haven’t quite had chance to pull off (yet).