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The
Buffalo Flows
The Story of Our First National River
Written and produced by Larry Foley
Photography by Trey Marley
Edited by Dale Carpenter
Two
University of Arkansas professors captured Emmy Awards
October 3rd in St. Louis from the Mid-America chapter
of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Music professor James Greeson won for an Emmy for his
musical composition for the documentary film, "The
Buffalo Flows." Journalism professor Larry Foley,
who wrote and produced the film, won an Emmy for best
writer for a TV program. |
Folk singer Jimmy Driftwood called the Buffalo River “Arkansas’s
gift to the nation—America’s gift to the world.”
It was the first national river to be designated in the United
States (1972).
The Buffalo Flows is a one-hour documentary film
written and produced by two-time Emmy award–winning
filmmaker Larry Foley, professor of journalism at the University
of Arkansas. Academy Award winner Ray McKinnon narrates. Internationally
known as an outstanding canoe stream, this 135-mile river,
free of dams, is so much more, and the film captures what
is protected.
The story is about the bluffs and the trees, the flowers and
the birds, and the giant elk. It’s about hiking and
floating and camping and fishing. And it’s also about
the people who make their homes in Buffalo River country year
round, and have for generations. Driftwood describes it as
a “painting that hangs on a mountain, glimmering there
in the sun, to show that the people have won.”
The film will premiere on AETN in winter 2009. Later in the
year it will be shown in conjunction with Ken Burns’s
“The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”
Bonus features: music video with an original song and “Buffalo
River,” a film by Neil Compton, the man who led the
fight to save the Buffalo as a free-flowing stream.
To view a clip from the film visit the “Buffalo
Flows” website.
January
$19.95 DVD 60 minutes
ISBN 978-1-55728-904-9 | 1-55728-904-2
*currently out of stock, backorders filled by April 13, 2013*
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