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Point of Beginning (Ryan Marino, NY)

Category: Documentary
Running Time: 18 minutes
Production Location(s): Ashtabula, Ohio; Cherry, Illinois; Davenport, Iowa
Screening Time(s): Saturday, October 27, 11:30am

Director: Ryan Marino
Producer:
Editing: Ryan Marino
Music: William Moloney, Steve Yankou
Screenwriting: Ryan Marino
Cinematography: Ryan Marino
Sound:
Principal Cast: May Kassem, Rashid Camarre (Narration)

Portraits of three places within the U.S. Midwest are used in an examination of history and its relationship to the present. A stop on the Underground Railroad in Ohio, the first bridge over the Mississippi River in Iowa, and a turn-of-the-century coal mine fire in Illinois.