I know this screening is in direct competition with this weekend’s Swede Fest, but I read about it in the Bee today and my blogger’s oath requires me to inform teh interweb about this local film event. [maybe all you Hanfordians who hate Swedes (and obviously Kingsburg), will have something to do this weekend after all.]
Valley native and USC film graduate David Dibble attended Roosevelt Elementary School in Hanford from 1979 to 1983, and he absolutely hated it. He hated school in general though, like most kids do. But the one thing that made school bearable was a wooden structure called “Fort Roosevelt,” which sat behind the school for 40 years. The structure was closed in 2004 and demolished in 2005, and when Dibble made a trip back to Hanford a couple years later and found out, he decided to make a documentary. The fort began as a duck pond, which eventually had to have a fence built around it to prevent kids from falling in. The school used over 100 telephone poles to construct the fence, which gave it the appearance of a fort from the old west. Additional buildings, wildlife exhibits and displays transformed the one-arce plot of land into an outdoor museum and playground.
For more information and to watch the trailer, go to www.fortroosevelt.com. The documentary will screen this Saturday, November 22 at 2:00pm at the Fox Theatre in Hanford. Admission is $2. And I am genuinely disappointed that I won’t be able to check this out. Seems like a very interesting docu about a slice of Valley life.
Good find, sir! Damn, maybe we’ll be privy to a future screening here in town. You can run the Swede Fest without me, right?
If the director of the swede doesn’t show up, then they should be made to wear a wig and recreate my scenes from Cruel Intentions. Just sayin. :D