Charlotte Observer: First-time filmmaker sets out on new quest
July 13, 2008 by pablo
The Charlotte Observer ran a feature story on Producer Laura Gatewood and Project Libertad today. Below is the beginning of the article, with a link to the entire article online!
If you set Laura Gatewood adrift in a leaky rowboat with nothing but a dozen safety pins and a roll of cellophane tape, she might not reach the shore.
But you shouldn’t bet on it.
She’s been alive for 28 years and already has been a competitive equestrienne, instructed African kids in the art of collage, taught monks in Cambodia to roller-skate – without actual skates, a very Zen concept – and tumbled into jobs in New York and Los Angeles with top art entrepreneurs. Resourcefulness comes as naturally to her as melody to a nightingale.
Ask Carmen Melian, her ex-boss and mentor at Sotheby’s in New York, if there’s anything Gatewood doesn’t do well, and she replies, “Laura’s not good at stomaching injustice. That’s the closest I can get.”
So it should surprise no one that this off-and-on Charlottean is now producing a feature film. “Libertad” is about a Salt Lake City-based detective who travels to his Mexican hometown to exonerate his junkie brother, who has been implicated in a string of murders. There he befriends a homeless boy who’s in danger of joining the border town’s drug culture.
Here’s the cool kicker: The production will shoot in both towns of Nogales, one in Arizona and one in Mexico, using 10 or more at-risk Mexican kids living in an orphanage.
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