Notes on Liberty

Believing that he is only on a trip to New York City to see the Statue of Liberty for his fifth birthday, Samuel Scott becomes instead a foil for his parents to create Notes on Liberty. On its surface, the movie plays like a portrait of the boy's zeal for the statue. Yet Notes signals the difference between the ideals of the statue with the culture of fear and cynicism that still exists in post-9/11 America.

Credits

Director/Cinematographer/Editor: John D. Scott
Producer/Photoshop: Karen Rodriguez
Animation: Nina Frenkel
Composer: Kent Lambert
Total Running Time: 9 min.
Website: www.magpieproductions.com

About The Filmmakers

JOHN D. SCOTT has won 11 awards and multiple glowing reviews and distinctions as an independent filmmaker and television producer. He has directed 14 projects, including one feature-length documentary called Scouts Are Cancelled, which debuted at the 2007 Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto. Scott is currently an assistant professor in the Television-Radio Department of the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. Before becoming a professor, Scott worked as field producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a consumer and media advocacy show for teens called Street Cents. Scott grew up in the Maritime Provinces in Canada.

KAREN RODRIGUEZ is a film and video artist living and working in Ithaca, New York. She completed the Master of Fine Arts program in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa Department of Communication and also has a degree in broadcasting and film from Boston University. Her films and videos have screened in the United States, Canada and Europe. Rodriguez has taught film production in the School of Visual Arts at Emerson College in Boston and is currently teaching production in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.