SELECTED INTERVIEWS
WGXC - 90.7 FM
https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/n44zcm
March 3, 2013
Interview by Melinda Braathen
​Isabel Barton discusses her experimental documentary, The Making of a Chief, how she met and collaborated with Hortensia Berti, a Kamarakoto from the Venezuelan Amazon, and the specifics of the Kamarakoto's extraordinary legacy and habitat.
WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears
NY's Upper Hudson Valley
https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/jtzae9
Hosted by Chad Weckler.
Filmmakers Julie Casper Roth and Isabel Barton are featured. Julie Casper Roth is an award-winning filmmaker and video artist and resides in Albany County. In 2008 she received an Artist Fellowship for Video from the New York Foundation for the Arts and in 2012 received the Professional Development Fellowship in the Visual Arts from the College Art Association. She is currently completing The Veil, a video project that looks at the influence of Mormonism on gender-identity and sexuality in current and former church members. Isabel Barton is a writer, photographer and filmmaker, and received the National Award for Photography in her native Venezuela in 1972. She has written four feature screenplays. She co-wrote The Aspern Papers, which received the Filmmaker Award at Film Columbia Film Festival in 2010. She is currently in post-production of a feature-length documentary "The Making of a Chief," the story of the Kamarakoto people who live at the base of Angle Falls, the highest waterfall in the world and located in southeastern Venezuela. It is 20 times higher than Niagara Falls. This film's fiscal sponsor is Artspire, a Program of NYFA.
