Local Filmmaker Breaks Out

Veteran Director Frazer Bradshaw has his work cut out for him. In the wake of several films that proved his knack for connecting with audiences, his latest film shot on location in Oakland, Everything Strange and New, makes the bold promise to connect with “ordinary people … longing for certainty in uncertain times” – that coming as unemployment climbs to a three-decade record high and there’s an overwhelming sense among Americans that the recession is only deepening. Does Bradshaw capture this moment history? And what lessons does he teach us?