IN PRODUCTION
Grab a Hunk of Lightning is a 90-minute film, on the photographer, Dorothea Lange. It's also an exploration of the creative process, and the cost of a creative life.
Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose work during the Great Depression has resonance even today. She photographed the disenfranchised - the migration to the west during the dustbowl, extreme poverty at home in the streets of San Francisco and throughout the United States, the Japanese Internment, and the urbanization of her home state, California.
Grab a Hunk of Lightning engages the viewer with strong characters, intimate human drama, and personal conflict in Lange's life, in a fervent time in history.
The filmmakers, Lange's granddaughter and goddaughter, will bring high-quality production, special access, and an intimate knowledge of the material to take the audience on a journey into the creative life.