New Releases

“Surviving the Death Road”
Take a ride on Bolivia’s “Camino de la Muerte” (“Road of Death”), where mountain bikers and local people careen past each other on one of the busiest throroughfares of today’s adventure tourism industry.   Along the way, we visit a vibrant community struggling with issues of indigenous cultural preservation, economic survival, the unequal terms of exchange with tourist concessions who pass every day but leave little for local people.  The disparate reactions of bikers and locals to a bus crash late in the film reveals a cultural divide in attitudes toward risk, development, and tradition, and highlights the assumptions and prejudices of each group towards the other.  Filmed over a five-year span, this 45-minute film tracks the inspiring journey of a local community into the global marketplace of the 21st Century.   Click here to view the trailer!

“Saya: Dance and Survival in an Afro-Bolivian Village”
In this half-hour film, we visit the town of Tocaña, where African descendents worked under a form of slavery that persisted until the 1950′s, and local people still perform dances rooted in their African cultural heritage.  The “Saya” dance troupe performs in the plaza of a nearby tourist town before an audience of local Indians, rich weekender from the Bolivian capital of La Paz, and international tourists.  The film highlights the dilemmas of cultural survival and emergence for an endangered subculture in an era of global saturation.  Click here to view the trailer!

“Climate and Colorado’s Future” on University of Colorado website
Landlocked Films is working with the University of Colorado’s Office of Continuing Education and Professional Studies to produce a multi-part series of web-based videos on the impact of climate change in Colorado.   Each “webisode” focuses on a different aspect of climate change in Colorado, bringing together the work of scientists at the cutting edge of research with stories of Coloradans working to mitigate future warming, adapt to the warming already underway, and educate our children about what we can do to meet the most profound challenge of our generation.  To see the series, visit the website at LearnMoreAboutClimate.colorado.edu

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About Landlocked Films

       Landlocked Films is an independent documentary video company based in Boulder, Colorado, owned and run by Beret E. Strong and John Tweedy.   Beret and John have been producing documentaries and educational videos since 1995.  Their films have been broadcast on PBS, screened at dozens of film festivals around the world, and won the CINE Golden Eagle, among other awards.            

        Beret is also a writer and teacher.  She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College.  She is the co-author of two books of Pacific island myths and legends and the author of a book on the poetic avant-garde between the world wars.  She has worked as a writer/grantwriter for filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman on When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories, nominated for an Academy Award in 1993, and for Maren Monsen, MD, Filmmaker in Residence at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.

            John is also a lawyer, practicing with Robinson Tweedy P.C.  in Boulder.  He received his law degree from Stanford Law School and an M.A. in Sociology from Brown University.  In addition to practicing law and making films, he has worked for the court system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on Saipan.  He has served on the boards of Sojourner Charter School, Horizons Alternative School, and Kids Connections.  Beret and John live in Boulder with their daughter Paige and son Marcus.