Milestone Films’ Dennis Doros on Ornette: Made in America and Project Shirley

Since founding Milestone Films in 1990, the husband and wife team of Dennis Doros and Amy Heller have been restoring and distributing some of the most significant and overlooked titles in the American independent cannon. Ornette: Made in America, one of four feature films in their “Project Shirley” Shirley Clarke collection, is wrapping up a week long run at Spectacle today, as part of a celebration of Ornette Coleman. Filmmaker spoke to Doros about the acquisition and restoration process behind Clarke’s characteristically singular documentary, as well as Milestones’ recent objection to Stephen Winters’ Jason and Shirley, which liberally re-imagines the set of Portrait of Jason. […]

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