MEDORA - IT'S FINALLY HERE!
I think that we all come across towns like Medora, working in rural areas like we do, we see these towns all of the time. I hope that you will enjoy Marcus's film.
Thanks Joanna for the introduction!
My son Marcus, is a documentary filmmaker and recently worked on a film entitled Medora. Yes I'm proud of him, but for those of us in the Real Estate industry, or in a related profession, this is just another really sad story about a rural community - this one, in Indiana.
Years ago, Medora was a booming rural community with prosperous farms, an automotive parts factory, a brick plant, and a thriving middle class. The factories have since closed, crippling Medora's economy and its pride. The population has slowly dwindled to around 500 people. Drug use is common, the school faces consolidation, and as one resident put it, “This town's on the ropes.”
Medora follows the down-but-not-out Medora Hornets varsity basketball team over the course of the 2011 season, capturing the players’ stories both on and off the court. The Hornets were riding a brutal losing streak when we arrived, and the team’s struggle to compete bears eerie resonances with the town’s fight for survival.
Medora is an in-depth, deeply personal look at small-town life, a thrilling, underdog basketball story, and an inspiring tale of a community refusing to give up hope despite the brutal odds stacked against them. On a grander scale, it’s a film about America, and the thousands of small towns across the country facing the same fight. As one towns-person told us, “Once we lose these small towns, we can't get them back."
Medora premiered at SXSW in Austin Texas in 2013.
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