THE OVERNIGHTERS documentary director Jesse Moss shares the trailer, clips, and background information on the film that chronicles the oil rush to North Dakota that resulted in thousands of displaced people without opportunities, like a modern version of HARLAN COUNTY, USA. Pastor Jay Reinke and the support system that he put in place to shelter and care for the crush of people that were following opportunities in the oil fields that were far fewer than they anticipated, plus the heartbreaking truth about the modern dustbowl story of America is explored in this BYOD episode, hosted by Ondi Timoner.
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Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. Local Pastor Jay Reinke opens his church to “overnighters,” men and women who have come to the region seeking employment in the oil fields. As Pastor Reinke fights for these men and women against growing opposition, he is drawn into the whirlpool of their troubled lives. THE OVERNIGHTERS premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival where it took the Special Jury Award for Intuitive Filmmaking. Jesse Moss worked alone in the field as director, cinematographer and sound recordist.
Jesse Moss is a San Francisco-based filmmaker. He produced, directed and photographed FULL BATTLE RATTLE, about the US Army’s fake Iraq in the Mojave Desert. The film premiered at the 2008 Berlinale (Panorama), won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW and opened theatrically at the Film Forum in New York. Prior to that he produced, directed and photographed SPEEDO: A DEMOLITION DERBY LOVE STORY, which won festival awards and critical raves across the country, aired on PBS/POV and was optioned by Warner Bros Pictures. His first film, CON MAN, about an Ivy League impostor was commissioned by HBO. He also produced WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE, which premiered at Sundance in 2009, was released theatrically by Arthouse Films and opened PBS/POV’s 2010 series. Moss has twice been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program. He is a lecturer in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.
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EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
00:01 Welcome to BYOD
00:05 Introducing Jesse Moss, Director of The Overnighters.
00:55 Shooting The Overnighters as a verite documentary.
01:55 Harlan County U.S.A. as a source of inspiration.
03:20 Finding a main subject in The Overnighters.
05:00 A clip from The Overnighters.
06:20 Was Pastor Jay Reinke attempting to fill a hole with his compassion for others?
10:20 The story that emerged from Williston, North Dakota.
11:50 Another clip from The Overnighters.
13:30 The struggles of the migrant workers at the church.
16:00 Developing the term,“The Overnighters.”
19:00 Finding inspiration and the theme of the film.
23:20 A clip from The Overnighters.
24:50 Finding salvation in unglamorous places.
28:40 Final clip from The Overnighters.
30:00 Pastor Jay Reinke as a performer.
31:25 How do you make a film when you can’t get funding?
34:40 Thank you and Goodbye.
37:10 Final clip from The Overnighters.