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Bill and Turner Ross - Acclaimed Documentary Filmmakers - 43565 and Tchoupitoulas

Published: Aug. 6, 2012, 2 a.m.

Bill and Turner Ross started out making small personal projects that they really never\xa0showed anyone, but that changed with the SXSW premier of 45365, which went on to win\xa0numerous awards, including the Truer Than Fiction\xa0prize in the Independent Spirit Awards.\xa0

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45365\xa0explores daily life in the quintessential American small town of Sidney, Ohio. It\xa0is a portrait of a city and its people - from cops to barbers to football coaches to\xa0nursing home residents. Using an impressionistic, verite approach, the film coalesces\xa0stories into a mosaic of faces, places, and events.\xa0

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More recently, their documentary, Tchoupitoulas (chop-ih-TOOL-us) has no interviews, no\xa0voiceover; just the evocation of an existence and the feelings it conjures.

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In\xa0Tchoupitoulas,\xa0three young\xa0brothers take a secret sunset journey across a river to a pleasure island that's always\xa0been forbidden to them in New Orleans:\xa0a world of dancers,\xa0musicians, hustlers, drag queens, and revelers that parade through the lamp-lit streets\xa0between Rampart and the river, seen through their eyes.