LOWLANDS DVD LAUNCHES Friday, October 14, 2011!

LOWLANDS is a feature cinematic essay that moves between chronological and geographical zones and events including the 1996 trial of a Bosnian Serb for crimes against humanity, the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, and the relationships between them. The film cultimates in a dream by Catharina Bolnes, the widow of Johannes Vermeer, embodied in a contemporary chamber opera/masque.

The revered American film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum, calls LOWLANDS an "awesome, provocative and highly original work." Mr. Rosenbaum placed LOWLANDS on the 2010 "best films" lists in "Film Comment" (Film Society of Lincoln Center) and "Sight & Sound" (British Film Institute).

2009, Color, 51 minutes, English/Dutch/Serbian, English subtitles, 5.1 Surround Sound, Widescreen 1.85:1


This metal foil dual layer DVD-R includes
• Interactive Menus
• 5.1 Surround Sound and Alternative Soundscapes
• Commentaries by Filmmakers
• Behind-the-Scenes Photos
• Deleted Scene
• Original Storyboards

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THE LOWLANDS WEBSITE
is online. It includes

• Trailer
• Bios of Filmmakers
• Downloadable Electronic Press Kit
• Downloadable English-Dutch Filmscript
• 60 hi-res production photographs of the chamber opera/masque
• 70 storyboards for the chamber opera/masque with which the film culminates
• Samples of the music from the chamber opera/masque
• Critical reviews and acclaim

LOWLANDS PRODUCER DIRECTOR
is Peter Thompson. Thompson is on the faculty of the Photography Department, Columbia College Chicago and a specialist in digital imaging and in the history and methodologies of documentary film.  Holds graduate degrees in comparative literature and in computer graphics; served as journalist in US Navy; studied classical guitar with Andres Segovia, Alirio Diaz and Celedonio Romero.  Selected awards and fellowships include Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Intercultural Documentary Film, Rockefeller Foundation Stage II Award in Intercultural Documentary Film, NEA Bicentennial Film Award (with Thom Tyson), ten Illinois Arts Council Fellowships.  Selected one-person screenings include Dachau Museum (Germany), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago.  His films traveled to Europe ("American Independent Cinema Now", curated by Richard Peña and Jonathan Rosenbaum) under the auspices of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (NY), and have been broadcast on public television in the U.S., Australia and Europe (INA, France; ZDF, Germany; Channel 4, England).  Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop.  Produced and directed EL MOVIMIENTO (2003), a Rockefeller Foundation funded feature documentary tracking the relationship between a Maya shaman and his North American apprentice in Yucatan over a ten-year period. Representative film reviews.