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episode 90: Happiness is a Journey: The Unseen America
Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan are award-winning filmmakers. Their documentary films have premiered at Sundance and won multiple awards including the Directors Fortnight best short film prize at Cannes. Patrick and Ivete's body of work focuses on the seldom seen and forgotten parts of American society.
Their most recent short Happiness is a Journey, produced by the Guardian, captures a night in the life of Eddie “Bear” Lopez, who spends his Christmas Eve and early Christmas Day delivering newspapers around Austin, Texas.
Ivete and Patrick join us to talk about their films, upcoming projects and how they find the inspiration and subjects for their films.
Watch the full interview at https://www.alamopictures.co.uk/podcast/happiness-is-a-journey/
“It’s the process of creating beauty and music, and then thinking why that is missing from our collective consciousness of who we are as a country, or as people, that inspires to make films.” – Ivete Lucas