An Hour From the Middle of Nowhere
- Directed by: Ole Elfenkaemper & Kathrin Seward
- Released: 2024 (educational)
- Year of Production: 2023
In the Deep South, the lives of an immigration attorney, a community, and a family intertwine in the shadow of one of the largest immigration detention prisons in the United States.
"What can give you hope in a place where there is no hope? Where people are deprived of their rights because they have crossed national borders in search of a better life. Marty Rosenbluth, human rights lawyer, fights with gentleness and passionate commitment for people in immigration detention. With their precise observation, the filmmakers succeed in creating a magnificent narrative. Different plots are artfully linked together and the perspectives are changed. Respectfully and unobtrusively, the filmmakers give their protagonists space in a captivating visual language. The film feels like the place - idyllic and lost. Kathrin Seward and Ole Elfenkaemper have created a film out of this overwhelming topic that empowers and inspires." – Gesa Rautenberg Award Ceremony 2024
It is such a wonderful film, and you two approach it with humility and beauty. My students said that the day you were here was among the best of their entire experience in high school--not just this year, but all 4 years of high school. - Lew Procacci, English High School Teacher, Hellgate High School Missoula, MT
Longing. Hope and hopelessness. Keep up. Separation with no prospect of meeting again. The film shows all of this impressively. -Article in Filmkultur Schleswig Holstein
Kathrin Seward is a Berlin-based filmmaker. She started her career working in the Middle East for several years, before taking a path as production manager and producer on large scale documentary TV-series as well independent productions. Kathrin is now deputy head of productions at a large German production company Story House Productions. Since 2012, she has worked on various German and international documentaries, web- and TV series.
Ole Elfenkaemper is a German director, producer and cinematographer in non-fiction films. He has a background in photo journalism and his work includes several documentaries and -series commissioned by German and international broadcasters, such as Sky, Arte, National Geographic, YouTube Originals, ZDF among others. Ole was nominated twice for the most prestigious German Television Award, the Grimme-Prize, as journalist and producer.
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