07-11-2021, 03:59 AM
https://www.thecommongroundsoundproject....ngumentary
documentary sprinkled with songs
Jill Riley was born into the fourth generation of a large cattle ranching and wheat farming family. In her award winning "Songumentary" film, she tells their important story spanning four generations with a message to the fifth - "the fifth" representing all future generations. Her great grandparents and their children somehow survived the dirty thirties and the great depression in the Texas Panhandle. Jill grew up observing the fitting debates and resulting divisions among the cattlemen of the second and third generations. Winner of the Anthem Film Festival 2020 for Best Original Score, her film shares the lessons she has learned through digging into the rich soil of her family heritage. Through this work, she has magnified a micro version of the issues we face together today, as an entire nation - the people or “family” of America as a whole. The project exists to inspire a celebration of heritage and to bring renewal to divided relationships. The writings and productions of The Common Ground Sound Project spark relevant and imperative conversations for the times we live in and aim to encourage, from underneath the fog of politics, a return to love and unity among "The Commoners" of this beauty-full country.
documentary sprinkled with songs
Jill Riley was born into the fourth generation of a large cattle ranching and wheat farming family. In her award winning "Songumentary" film, she tells their important story spanning four generations with a message to the fifth - "the fifth" representing all future generations. Her great grandparents and their children somehow survived the dirty thirties and the great depression in the Texas Panhandle. Jill grew up observing the fitting debates and resulting divisions among the cattlemen of the second and third generations. Winner of the Anthem Film Festival 2020 for Best Original Score, her film shares the lessons she has learned through digging into the rich soil of her family heritage. Through this work, she has magnified a micro version of the issues we face together today, as an entire nation - the people or “family” of America as a whole. The project exists to inspire a celebration of heritage and to bring renewal to divided relationships. The writings and productions of The Common Ground Sound Project spark relevant and imperative conversations for the times we live in and aim to encourage, from underneath the fog of politics, a return to love and unity among "The Commoners" of this beauty-full country.