In Ballast, a single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway storeowner, thus awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict. Movieweb recently caught up with writer/director Lance Hammer to talk extensively with him about this hard-hitting drama. The interview is below.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Lance Hammer talks about Ballast
I posted the trailer for this a while back.
In Ballast, a single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway storeowner, thus awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict. Movieweb recently caught up with writer/director Lance Hammer to talk extensively with him about this hard-hitting drama. The interview is below.
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In Ballast, a single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway storeowner, thus awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict. Movieweb recently caught up with writer/director Lance Hammer to talk extensively with him about this hard-hitting drama. The interview is below.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Ballast - Trailer
Sony Pictures Classics has recently unveiled the trailer for Lance Hammer's award winning independent film titled Ballast. Ballast is a drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man's suicide affects three people's lives. This won the directing and cinematography awards from Sundance earlier this year.
Ballast is both written and directed by first-time filmmakerLance Hammer, who wrote and directed a short titled Issaquena previously.
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