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Chapter 2
Nobody really remembers how Andie and Harvey met. Cable station? PBS? Some people say Andie was going with Ed Asner; others say she stole Harvey away from Brooke Shields. Nobody can really remember, but somehow they met.
Andie and Harvey got married and Captured Time emerged nine or so months later.
They lived in an eleven hundred square foot Cape Cod cottage with two renters and produced movies in the basement. Harvey came home from a freelance job in New York City with another company one day and said, "Honey, I just discovered interns." In winter they installed six or eight in the basement; in summer they worked outside. Strays filled the kitchen. Lines formed outside their one bathroom. They even put a bunch of interns in their Christmas card one year.
Andie and Harvey worked on other people's independent features, major features, national commercials, industrials, cable shows, PBS programs. Andie met Jeremy Brecher through Connecticut Public Television. Even though he was a writer, historian, and Humanities Scholar in Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio, the Hubbells managed to loosen him up enough to work on their "documentaries with a difference."
Eventually they started making their own documentaries. The first was Electronic Road Film. Thirteen thousand miles, sixty days. It took director and writer Harvey, producer Andie, co-writer Jeremy, and twenty interns six years to boil 100 hours of footage down to a half- hour show. It won an Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Program. Michael Carr, director of Telluride Indiefest, called it “The best ‘grassroots’ depiction of current American values.” Total budget: $15,000.
Meanwhile, Andie was working with Jeremy on light-hearted documentaries at Connecticut Public Television. First out of the gate was a program on educational segregation called Schools in Black and White. Next was The Roots of Roe, a history of abortion and contraception in Connecticut. They set themselves the impossible challenge of making a program that both abortion supporters and opponents would consider fair —and actually got endorsements from both sides. The Roots of Roe was so successful — it won three Emmys — that PBS asked them to re-cut it for national broadcast.
Harvey continued his life as an itinerant film worker on good movies and bad. Captured Time produced industrials – from steel companies to dance companies – to help pay the bills. Andie and Jeremy helped produce The Amistad Revolt, a documentary that told the historical story that Stephen Spielberg later fictionalized in Amistad.
In 1997, the Hubbells moved to a 73-acre farm in Litchfield, Connecticut, near Jeremy’s long-term home in Cornwall, Connecticut. They stocked it with cows, interns, and Avids.
Jeremy's
separate worlds crashed together when Captured Time made a documentary
of his book Global Village or Global Pillage?. In place of
footnotes there was animation of cats and mice. It won the Gold Special
Jury Award from WorldFest Houston was and was a big success in the church
basement market.
When
Harvey got asked to serve as 1st Assistant Director for a low-budget
thriller, he agreed – if he could also make a movie about the
process. The result was
Loop Dreams: The Making of a Low-Budget Movie, with Harvey
as director and producer, Andie as co-producer, and Jeremy as co-writer.
Loop Dreams won three Emmys and the Gold World Medal for Comedy from
the New York Festivals.
On the principle that if you are a lemon you should make lemonade, Harvey and Jeremy (both dyslexics) are now at work on a documentary called Dislecksia: The Movie . (Andie serves as producer and spell checker.)
For whatever sins Harvey doesn't know, he was made Chairman of the Film Committee in CT, thank God he has a Vice-Chair, Walter Fiederowicz, who knows what They're supposed to do!
Harvey's mentor, who he affectionately refers to as his "tormentor",
Herb Loebel, is a master in the film business.
A person can go a long way standing on the shoulders of giants!
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