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Review: “FARMER JOE”
Director: Jim Parker
Running Time: 20 minutes
Genre: Documentary, farming
Contact: http://www.vimeo.com/2839912
Jim Parker’s Farmer Joe is a well shot twenty minute documentary about Joe, the owner of a family farm in Colorado. Audiences can expect nothing more complicated than the daily tasks required to ready crops for farmer’s markets on the weekend.
If you are interested in seeing how an American family farmer works, this is the short. However, for those completely uninterested in such things, the short might seem a bit too long and seems to get caught up on the physical processes of farming without a great deal of human depth. Even without such depth, it is an interesting look into a world most city and suburban dwellers never see, set against the beautiful scenery of Colorado farming.
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Reviewed films were randomly selected from the hundreds of entries to the 2009 DC Shorts Film Festival. The reviews are written by Bryan Koenig, an intern with an interest in film review and journalism. The opinions expressed are his own, and not that of the independent judging panel, the DC Shorts Film Festival staff, or the staff and Board of the DC Film Alliance.
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