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That Which Once Was

In 2032, an eight-year-old Caribbean boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile Northern metropolis and forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver.

Series

FUTURESTATES

Premiere Date

April 18, 2011

Length

21 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production, Development

Kimi Takesue

Director

Adriane Giebel

Producer

Adriane Giebel’s credits include Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story and Theater of War, a feature documentary starring Meryl Streep and Tony Kushner. She has produced programs for Sundance Channel, IFC, and Court TV, as well as commercial work for the fashion industry and corporate clients such as Calvin Klein, IBM ,and UPS. She holds film degrees from Harvard and New York Universities.
Richard Beenen

Co-Producer

Richard Beenen is a New York based artist, photographer, and educator with teaching experience at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and recently at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. His fine art work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, White Columns/NYC, and Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma. He has received artist fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollack Krasner Foundation, and the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Beenen has also been a co-producer on numerous award winning narrative and documentary films including, Summer of The Serpent, E=NYC2, Suspended, and the feature length documentary Where Are You Taking Me? which have screened at festivals worldwide including the Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, SXSW, and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
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