Part of SFFILM Festival
Rebuilding Paradise
Description
Ron Howard’s stirring documentary begins with visceral images of a town burning while residents flee. But the director’s focus is less on the destruction of Paradise, CA, in the 2018 Camp Fire than on the community’s potential rebirth. Following a group of residents for a year after the conflagration, Howard creates a moving portrait of resilient people soldiering on despite intractable challenges. The devastation of the town could have erased it, but Rebuilding Paradise limns a citizenry determined to coax a phoenix out of the ashes.
“[Rebuilding Paradise] brings into focus not just the painful losses of loved ones and homes, but the sheer daunting scale of logistical planning, fundraising, and negotiation with bureaucracies needed to rebuild the community.” –Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
After a career as a child actor on The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968) and a young adult star in American Graffiti (1973) and on Happy Days (1974-1984), Ron Howard made his debut as a director with Grand Theft Auto (1977). He has gone onto a prolific filmmaking career, directing, among many others, Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), Parenthood (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Cinderella Man (2005), and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Howard won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for A Beautiful Mind (2001) and was nominated in those same categories for Frost/Nixon (2009).
Film Details
LanguageEnglish
Year2019
Runtime92
CountryUSA
DirectorRon Howard
ProducerBrian Grazer, Ron Howard, Xan Parker, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes
EditorM. Watanabe Milmore
CinematographerLincoln Else
MusicHans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe
Print Sourceational Geographic Documentary Films
Kristin.Montalbano@natgeo.comhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/films/rebuilding-paradise
