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David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
Among the films to be screened during the first-ever San Diego International ShortsFest is
“The Roads Most Traveled,” an emotionally involving 24-minute retrospective of the work of photojournalist Don Bartletti.
Bartletti spent 40 years in a distinguished career that took him from the Vista Press, to the bygone Oceanside Blade-Tribune, to the then-San Diego Union and eventually to the Los Angeles Times, where he would win a Pulitzer Prize for his photojournalism in 2003.
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The focus of “The Roads Most Traveled,” directed by Palomar College’s Bill Wisneski, is Bartletti’s visual documentation of the migration of Central Americans to the U.S. This includes a harrowing and heartbreaking experience riding atop freight cars bound for El Norte with his camera and little else, “an assignment,” Bartletti says in the film, “that change
Sofia Coppolaâs Challenge: To Convey the Feeling of Live Dance
Coppola and Justin Peck talk about how they approached making a film for New York City Balletâs digital spring gala.
A segment from Balanchineâs âDivertimento No. 15â concludes Coppolaâs film for the gala. She wanted to convey a âkind of old Hollywood glamourâ for this finale.Credit.Erin Baiano
May 4, 2021
Though she likes ballet, Sofia Coppola doesnât consider herself an aficionado. Still, when she received an email from the New York City Ballet asking if she would direct a film for the companyâs virtual spring gala on May 5, she didnât hesitate. âI was so thrilled,â she said in a video interview last week. âIt was so cool to get a note from City Ballet.â