TODD TUE - DIRECTOR
While growing up in the countryside of Southeastern Michigan I developed a strong affinity towards the traditions and culture of American rural communities. I have also always been interested in various forms of storytelling and specifically the storytelling crafted in traditional American folk and country music. The music that these songwriters created was really a love letter to the land they lived on and the fruits of hard labor, and most importantly how those notions were intertwined.
In 2008, I started to explore my family's southern lineage and my love of southern tradition, by co-producing/editing a documentary film called Seven Signs: Music, Myth & The American South. The film focused on the marginalization of traditional life, art, and work in The South and shows how the alt-country music scene has helped bring a focus back to this diminishing way of life. This project really gave me a better understanding of how I can use filmmaking to shed light on these American communities that are dwindling. As society tends to distance itself more and more from traditional rural America I feel an urgency to share the stories of these communities, these families and our friends so we don't lose these threads that helped to build our unique national identity.
The Nolan family farm does not just make cheese, it is a place that combines life with livelihood and exhibits the long-standing tradition of a commitment towards community building. That is what I hope to capture with this film, the story of a family working together, bettering themselves, and bettering the community at large by providing ethically produced food.
COMPANY BIO
I am one of the co-creators of Milk Products Media, a production company specializing in creative documentaries music videos, and new media. Our goal is always to tell a good story and we love exploring ways of marrying music and images together in new ways.
