Posted by Howard Richman on March 28 2008 at 09:21:15:
An article posted on a Connecticut TV station´s website (WTNH) features filmmaker Roger Ingraham. Here is a selection:
It may be hard to believe, but in some African villages, people are dying on a weekly basis from waterborn diseases. In 2006, Documentary Filmmaker and Connecticut native Roger Ingraham, traveled to Nigeria with the charity group Marycare and filmed their work in bringing clean water to that part of the world.HowardRoger Ingraham is a Connecticut-based filmmaker, best known for the independent film Moonshine. He started the film in 2003 at the young age of 19 and finished editing it in 2006. That same year, the film met unlikely success and world-premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, setting landmarks with a shoestring budget of $9200 and Hollywood production value - making him, at age 21, the youngest feature filmmaker in Sundance history.
Roger Ingraham was born in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, in 1984. An independent spirit drove him from a young age. After sophomore year of high school, he convinced his parents to let him drop out of high school to home-school himself. In 2004, he wrote, directed and produced his first feature film garnering the help of his small Connecticut town.
Before the premiere at Sundance, he was struck with a profound realization that God exists. Along with that, his focus and concern shifted towards world suffering. In 2006 and 2007, he travelled with Marycare to visit the poorest villages in Argentina and Nigeria. This marked the shift in his career towards documentary filmmaking as a way to help illuminate the many great challenges we face as a world....