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Age 35
Education Bachelor’s degree in film and English from University of
Iowa, master’s degree in film from UW-Milwaukee.
Film credits “The Ice Cream Social” (co-director),“The Yes Men”
(co-director, co-producer),“American Movie” (co-director, co-producer,
editor, sound),“American Job” (co-editor),“The Big One” (sound),
“Oracle of Omaha” (director of photography).
Kicks back Plays drums (she used to play for the now-defunct Com-
petitorr andThe Horn Band),goes camping,hangs out with friends.
Future goals To get her pilot’s license and get recertified for
scuba driving.
Number of DVDs Three.“Blue Crush,”“The Deer Hunter” and
“Amadeus.” (She admits with embarrassment that her limited VHS
collection includes “Ghost.”)
QWhen did you first fall in love
with film?
AWhen I moved to New York, I was
actually going there to get into
acting. But I was completely naïve, was
working two jobs at 18, and just didn’t
like what I was seeing. … (College is)
where I really started taking film classes
and learned about approaching it from
a different way, and approaching it from
an artist’s perspective as opposed to an
industry perspective. … “Sherman’s
March” was sort of a pinnacle for me,
and watching that just changed every-
thing in my life. It’s by Ross McElwee.
It’s a personal documentary. He got a lot
of money to document General Sher-
man’s march to the sea during the Civil
War. Then he and his girlfriend broke up
right before he was supposed to shoot
this film, so it turns into a personal film
documenting how he’s feeling about this
while he’s sort of retracing Sherman’s
march to the sea. But instead of film-
ing all the historical stuff he’s supposed
to, he starts filming all the women he’s
meeting. It’s hilarious. It changed the
way I saw documentary and what I saw
filmmaking was.
QHow has Wisconsin shaped
you as a filmmaker?
AThe ability to live here fairly cheaply
enables me to do this. If I had to live
in L.A. or New York or Chicago, there’s
no way I could’ve done what I’ve done
for the last 10 years. … It’s a place that
affords you a lot of creative and mental
freedom. If you don’t have to worry
about traffic, and you don’t have to
worry about dealing with the logistics of
everyday life, you have a lot more time
to work on your craft.
QIt seems like a lot of talented
people feel like they have to
leave Milwaukee to do bigger and
better things. Do you think that’s
true?
ANo, I don’t think so, because we did
our big thing from Milwaukee. The
important thing is that our contacts are
made; they’re in New York and L.A. …
And that was important to establish. If
your job is to create something and have
something at the end of it, you just need
someone who can help you get it out
into the world. If you have that in place,
you can go anywhere.
QAny wishes for Milwaukee
— anything you hope will
have changed or not changed by
the time you get back?
AThe parking situation has to change
(laughs). And I hope they lower
their property taxes. And just to recog-
nize the charm of this place and to pro-
tect that because I could easily see things
flipping into another Starbucks-land or
just Gap-itization that’s happening in so
many cities where it’s just ruining the
landscape or any sort of individualistic
charm, and Milwaukee has it and needs
to maintain it.
Documentary filmmaker bids
Milwaukee farewell — for now
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STORY BY NICOLE SWEENEY PHOTO BY C. TAYLOR
they say
“Sarah has her mission and she has to follow
that and she’s one of those unique people
that’s actually interested in her own work
and pursues it. Instead of just talking about
it, she does it, and that’s a rare breed.”
— Mark Borchardt,
local filmmaker and star
of “American Movie”
A H
F
ilmmaker Sarah Price grew up
as a city-hopping girl on the
go who spun through a blur
of hometowns before she had
even graduated from high school.
But it was Milwaukee — not London
or Germany or Kenya or D.C. — that
finally hooked Price. It was during
her decade here that she grew into
a critically acclaimed documentary
filmmaker. And it was here that she
co-produced, with fellow Milwaukeean
Chris Smith, the cult classic “American
Movie,” a documentary that brought
international attention to the city she
loved.
Now she’s on the move again. She
leaves this month, first to Senegal
and then to New York, to co-produce
a documentary on musician Youssou
N’Dour. And she expects to make New
York her home base while she wraps up
other unfinished projects (documenta-
ries on Afghanistan, summer camp and
a Minnesota lambing farm).
“There’s a real ebb and flow with all of
these projects and that’s what I love and
what I want to keep having in my life,”
said Price. “I never want anything to be
constant or consistent. That would be
boring. To do only film every day would
be tremendously boring to me.”
Price said she hasn’t ruled out re-
turning to Milwaukee eventually.
“Who knows what this is,” she said.
“It might be just a hiatus.”
mke’s Nicole Sweeney caught up
with Price before she left town.
more
To read more
about filmmaker
Sarah Price, visit
mkeonline.
com.
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