New Jersey Stage 2016 - Issue 7 | Page 102

Destiny’s Bridge 2016 by Rosemary Conte SHARE BUTTON Jack Ballo is an award-winning “alternative” filmmaker. His artistic style is “truth cinema”A.K.A. Cinéma Vérité—the French technique of filmmaking originated by Jean Rouch that became popular in the 1960s. NJ STAGE 2016 - ISSUE 7 In Destiny’s Bridge 2016, Ballo captures the raw, natural action and dialogue of 80 homeless people and their caregiver, Minister Steve Brigham, who all live in tents in an encampment in the woods of Lakewood NJ, known as Tent City. The film is INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 102