Asiel Norton "Redland"
Asiel Norton came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about his film "Redland."
As a family struggles to survive in rural America during the Great Depression, their daughter’s secret affair begins a journey into the unknown. From writer/director, Asiel Norton, comes this story about the eternal laws of survival and existence, and how one act can begin the dissolution as well as the rebirth of a family.
Asiel Norton was raised in a small cabin on Kneeland Mountain, CA. with no television, limited electricity, and water attained from a nearby stream. He attended the Brooks Institute of Photography, and has worked as a fine art photographer; in 2004 he graduated from USC Film School.
His first feature film Redland premiered at the 2009 CineVegas Film Festival, played at Montreal World Film Festival, and won Best Debut Feature at 2009 Raindance Film Festival in London. Norton was recently included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2009 as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Norton is currently at work on his second feature film, “Hear I Sing,” a film about a Jewish woman struggling to survive in the mountains of Ukraine during German occupation in WWII.
Asiel Norton was raised in a small cabin on Kneeland Mountain, CA. with no television, limited electricity, and water attained from a nearby stream. He attended the Brooks Institute of Photography, and has worked as a fine art photographer; in 2004 he graduated from USC Film School.
His first feature film Redland premiered at the 2009 CineVegas Film Festival, played at Montreal World Film Festival, and won Best Debut Feature at 2009 Raindance Film Festival in London. Norton was recently included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2009 as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Norton is currently at work on his second feature film, “Hear I Sing,” a film about a Jewish woman struggling to survive in the mountains of Ukraine during German occupation in WWII.
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