PORT ANGELES — Filmmakers are documenting the demolition of the two Elwha River dams, and will be filming for the three years the massive project will take.
One webisode, by NarrativeLab based in Portland, Ore., is already on the Olympic National Park Elwha River website at http://tinyurl.com/26n58n9.
The five-minute introduction to the $350 million river restoration project was created in June.
Six more are planned, said Jeff Gersh, producer.
“We’re documenting the dams coming down, and along the way, we will deliver webisodes as chapters in the story,” he said.
Jan Mouder of the nonprofit Wings Over Watersheds, a Bainbridge Island organization, is the project administrator.
Under a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service, Wings Over Watersheds will produce the web videos, a longer visitor center orientation film and a 60-minute documentary, said Barb Maynes, park spokeswoman.
Maynes did not say how much the contract is for.
Gersh said more money will need to be raised, “because it’s such a big palette and there’s so much to tell.”
Directors of photography are David Fox and Diana Wilmar, both of Seattle.
The broadcast piece will possibly be for public television, Gersh said.
But that won’t be finished for some time.
“We have three years of shooting to do,” Gersh said.
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