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Rebels With A Cause Contributors Kelly+Yamamoto Productions
Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto made Smitten, a documentary thatenters the world of Napa Valley’s Rene di Rosa, an unusual art collector whose goal is neither about interior decorating nor increasing social status, but about the pure joy of discovery. Smitten was made in partnership with KRCB public television with support from ITVS and the Fleishhacker Foundation. Smitten won several film festival awards and has aired repeatedly as a PBS Primetime Special. In 2009, Smittenwill launch on iTunes. Nancy and Kenji made the hour-long documentary, Downside UP, which aired on the PBS Independent Lens series. Downside UPis a first-person story about America’s largest museum of contemporary art (MASS MoCA), which opened in the abandoned Massachusetts factory where Kelly’s grandparents and parents once worked. Downside UP explores whether something as ephemeral as contemporary art can breathe life into a dying city. Nancy and Kenji also made the critically acclaimed American Playhouse Theatrical film Thousand Pieces of Gold, which showed at many international film festivals and was theatrically released in the US and Europe. It aired on the PBS American Playhouse series, was broadcast worldwide, and is on Netflix. Nancy also produced and directed the documentaries Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women; A Cowhand's Song: Crisis on the Range; and Sweeping Ocean Views. Kenji has edited a number of documentaries, including: New Muslim Cool, produced and directed by Jennifer Taylor; Immigration Calculations, a KQED production produced by Jennifer Taylor and Sheraz Sadiq; the DVD extras for the HBO series Deadwood, produced and directed byDavid Schwarz; and Thirst,anhour-long documentary that aired on the PBS P.O.V. series, produced and directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman. The Team Nancy Kelly, Director, Producer, Writer Kenji Yamamoto, Editor and Producer Stan Marvin, KRCB Program Director FUNDERS California Stories: California Council for the Humanities in partnership with the Skirball Foundation Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation LEF Foundation California Coastal Commission Whale Trails Grant Program Audubon Canyon Ranch Marin Community Foundation Nu Lambda Trust Pohaku Fund Fred Gellert Family Foundation Robert Praetzel  BLUE RIBBON ADVISORY COMMITTEE Phyllis Faber (co-founder, Marin Agricultural Land Trust), Doug Ferguson (Mill Valley attorney and long-time activist), Gary Giacomini (former Marin County Supervisor), Martin Griffin (co-founder, Audubon Canyon Ranch), Huey Johnson (founder, Resource Renewal Institute and the Trust for Public Land), Don Neubacher (Superintendent, Point Reyes National Seashore), Brian O’Neill (Superintendent, Golden Gate National Recreation Area) and Martin Rosen (former President, the Trust for Public Land). FRIENDS Robert Berner, Marin Agricultural Land Trust Sue Conley, Cowgirl Creamery Dr. Martin Griffin, Author Ralph Grossi John Hart, Author Charles McGlashan, Marin County Board of Supervisors Elisabeth Ptak, Marin Agricultural Land Trust Michael Straus, Straus Communications  Rural California Broadcasting PBS & NPR affiliate for the North Bay 5850 Labath Ave. Rohnert Park, CA 94928 707.584.2000 Photography ©Kelly+Yamamoto Productions. Photo: Lou Weinert |
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Rebels With A Cause (working title) An hour long documentary by Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto
In the 1950s, the vision for the Marin County coast was all too familiar: the rural area would become an extension of San Francisco, resembling Menlo Park or Malibu; hundreds of thousands of people would reside in suburban housing developments between Bolinas and Tomales Bay; an eight lane freeway would connect the Richmond Bridge with Point Reyes Station; rural Highway One would become a multi-lane freeway; and harbors, marinas, and hotels would cover Bolinas Lagoon, Limantaur Estero and Tomales Bay. At the time most people assumed agriculture in the region was dead and the county’s dairymen and ranchers would become rich selling their land to real estate developers and move their operations elsewhere. Urbanization seemed unavoidable, especially for a rural area so close to a burgeoning city like San Francisco. That this did not come to pass is the compelling and epic story of Rebels With A Cause.
Rebels With A Cause portrays the ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things to save what are now the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area from development, creating an 80 mile-long park that supports open space, recreation, agriculture and wildlife. This dramatic story weaves together themes of conservation, ecology, development, finance, politics and sustainability. Rebels With A Cause is about the crucial moments that any campaign for change must reach to accomplish its goals. It illustrates how people with vastly different ideas can create something coherent and illuminates how an accumulation of individual visions can become a profound, connected success. Rebels With A Causehas the potential to inspire audiences around the world to take action, form alliances, and persist to make the world a better place.
In Rebels With A Cause we meet the bold, dauntless, forward-thinking conservationists who assembled a series of land acquisitions into an increasingly large block of parkland and, in doing so, thwarted local, state and federal government plans to turn the Northern California coastline into a Los Angeles-style suburb. Rebels With A Cause re-lives the creation of the Point Reyes National Seashore, in which recreation and preservation of agriculture have been woven together into the preservation of a unique, eighty-mile long stretch of undeveloped coastline. The original plan for Point Reyes envisioned a "Jones Beach on the Pacific" – a cliff-top parkway would have passed within yards of a seal rookery, Limantour Estero would have been engineered for motor boating. Even dune buggies were provided for. Before any of these plans could be implemented, the public made it clear that it wanted Point Reyes treated as wilderness. Although it was a controversial idea in the beginning, many farms and ranches were made part of the park, enabling family-based agriculture to continue in an urban area  The result of the tireless work of many citizens is that close to San Francisco – one of the world’s great cities – are beaches, mountains, forests, islands and wildlife. Rebels With A Cause emphasizes the importance of citizen action in the preservation of cultural and natural heritage.Rebels With A Cause also highlights the history and the role of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust in helping agriculture continue in West Marin and the ways in which agriculture, recreation and conservation dovetailed into a model of sustainable agriculture.
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Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near where they lived. A stunningly beautiful new film narrated by Frances McDormand, REBELS WITH A CAUSE is filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto's retelling of the story of the schemers and dreamers who fought to keep developers from taking over the breathtaking landscape of Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, two national parks north of San Francisco.
In the early 20th century, many stood with Speaker of the House Joe Cannon, who opposed taxpayer support of private land acquisition to benefit national parks ("Not a cent for scenery!"). But Clem Miller, California Congressman from 1958-62, emerged as the forward-looking patron saint of the movement. Miller's vision included the continuation of historic ranching along with the preservation of grasslands and open scenic vistas. REBELS WITH A CAUSE describes in fascinating detail how dedicated conservationists raised Californians' awareness of their power to promote change.
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REBELS received the 2012 Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Favorite Award for Best Documentary - Active Cinema.
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KRCB and InCA appreciate the support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in this project. |
