FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com AUGUST 28, 2014 • THE COURIER SUN 11 Jamaica Bay movie is nearing completion BY SALVATORE LICATA slicata@queenscourier.com @Sal_Licata1 Jamaica Bay is on the verge of getting its own little taste of stardom as a new documentary about the body of water and its surrounding habitats is offi cially in postproduction. The documentary fi lm titled “Jamaica Bay” was started about three years ago. It will cover the bay’s history, environmental issues and local residents’ way of life, according to Dan Hendrick, producer of the fi lm. “The overarching theme of the fi lm is that right now, Jamaica Bay is a good national park but it has the potential to be great one,” Hendrick said. “We hope that this fi lm will inspire people.” Hendrick and his team started his work on the fi lm in August 2011. He said he wants to highlight how the bay has made such a remarkable comeback from where it was 30 years ago. They have over 100 hours of fi lm of the bay including shots from before, during and after it was devastated by Superstorm Sandy. “People care about the bay more than ever,” Hendrick said. “The pollution has subsided from where it was 30 years ago but there is still a lot of work to do.” The team hopes to get the documentary out to both local TV channels and movie theaters by spring of 2015. Due to limits on public television, the Photo courtesy of Jamaica Bay Lives Flickr television cut will be less than an hour long, Jamaica Bay documentary fi lm set to but the producers hope for the full fi lm to release in spring of 2015 run up to 90 minutes. C M Y CM MY CY CMY K BBCN_SmarTeenChecking_QUEENS COURIER_NY_REV.pdf 1 8/25/14 5:09 PM
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