Alma Har’El on her Work-in-Progress LoveTrue at the Tribeca Film Festival

Alma Har’El’s 2011 Bombay Beach is one of the most striking feature debuts of any sort, fiction or doc, in recent years. In writing about the film and Har’El for our 25 New Faces of 2011, I called it “not only a loving, deeply empathetic portrait of the diverse characters who make up the town” (a small burg in the Salton Sea) “but also a beautifully poetic cinematic essay on the power — and necessity — of play and self-invention.” Bombay Beach, shot largely by Har’El herself on a handheld, $600 Canon consumer video camera, had style to burn, and […]

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