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Project dossier3/2/2023 Joshua Leonard's biographical sketch from Professor Michael DeCoto's film class. She worked as a videographer for countless weddings and bar mitzvahs, simultaneously planning her first major project, a documentary on the story of her grandfather's that both fascinated and frightened her the most-the legend of the Blair Witch. Once her family moved to Maryland in 1991, Heather began studying video production at Montgomery College in Rockville. She made it her mission to investigate and document the origins of these stories, primarily as an act of preservation. Some of Heather's earliest memories are of her grandfather's tales of the ghosts and witches said to haunt the area. Virtually every summer, however, she would visit with her grandparents, Randy and Sadie Donahue, who lived in Fredrick County, Maryland. This not only adds an extra dimension to the film, it also turns the now-iconic “I’m sorry” scene on its head.īorn on August 17, 1972, Heather Donahue lived most of her live in New York City. The real treat here, however, is the reproduction of Heather’s journal from the website, a running commentary actually written by the actress herself during the film shoot that contains the aforementioned bombshell twist not mentioned in the film itself: Heather was sending energy out to the Blair Witch well before she and her student colleagues set foot in the woods, hoping to coax the ghost out in order to document her on film. It’s like having a Blair Witch-specific Wikipedia (such as this one) right there on your book shelf. The comprehensiveness of this book cannot be overstated – it is more of an encyclopedia, indexing progress reports from private investigator Buck Buchanan to Angie Donahue (Heather’s mother, and his client) and collecting photographs of the various crime scenes. The result was The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier, which takes all of the information from the website, combines it with a number of the personalities from the documentary Curse of the Blair Witch (along with a smorgasbord of new info), and cements it in print form. Stern came up with a brilliant idea: rather than doing a standard novelization, they would further the deceitful marketing premise stating that the film's events actually happened by providing a collection of every last bit of information out there on the student filmmakers, on the city of Burkittsville, and, of course, on the Blair Witch herself. When a tie-in book to The Blair Witch Project to was called for by Artisan and publisher Onyx, author D.A. Has anyone else checked it out? It’s so cringe it’s hard to listen to, honestly.The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier (cover) It’s a targeted and truly mind-blowing mental gymnastics. Not choosing a victim mindset is NOT the same as someone being a victim of abuse. I’m genuinely deeply sad for them that they’ve been manipulated to a point of a lack of compassion - and an inability to separate the concept of “being a victim” from “being victimized”. I completely grasp, personally, how they could walk themselves down that rabbit hole. Lemme just say - I have been through self help courses like NXIVM and their abuse of the language and tools is absolutely nutso. And Clyne has now started speaking out in very careful language. soooo” basically invalidating the experience of the victims by saying it wasn’t like that for them. The essential thrust of it is “Keith and DOS wasn’t like that for US. As if the crazy couldn’t get anymore next level, the women who still support Keith and DOS have started an incredibly tone deaf website/project called DOSsier. I’ve seen people post asking about how the other members of DOS have not been brought in yet.
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