VC2 Top Contenders US | April 03, 2008 | Comment on this video (4)

The Break

Rojofilms
On June 3, 2004, a levee broke on the Upper Jones Tract Island destroying 10,000 acres of farmland and displacing 270 residents within the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta. As two thirds of California's 37 million people get water from The Delta, this event marked the extreme need to repair the levee system and secure California's water supply.
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    Rojofilms Co-Director/Editor/ Co-Producer/Cinematographer, SquareOneCinema Co-Directo/Co-Producer/Art Director
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4 comments // The Break // Video

  • autonomy16
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      autonomy16  

    • Very nice piece. A lot of history here that's gone unnoticed about California's heartland. The delta in all it's beauty and significance is teetering on the edge of catastrophie. Can't our gov't officials get a grip and learn from the past and recent events?

    • 3 years ago
  • Hammocks
  • Rojofilms
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      Rojofilms  

    • Thanks man. We actually talked to Jeff Mount but he declined to talk on film. I got the footage of various organizations and news archives. I'm not sure if you can see the credits but we list all the different organizations that gave us footage.

      Are you from Northern Cali?

    • 3 years ago
  • BlueDotProdux
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      BlueDotProdux  

    • Good stuff, the intertitles were a bit hard to read compressed. I've used a shadow behind titles to make it stand out more on Current.

      The population of the Delta is still rapidly increasing with more and more strain on the water supply and obviously still protected by 100-year old levees. Jeff Mount at UC Davis has calculated a 2 in 3 chance of levee failure in the next fifty years.

      Where'd you get the footage of all the flooding and aerial footage?

    • 3 years ago
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