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Some Kind of Heaven started as a college thesis for director Lance Oppenheim, and this documentary about Florida’s The Villages is now a full fledged project. Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, the project centers on several people who call The Villages home, and thanks to a mixture of stylized and humanistic filmmaking, Some Kind of Heaven resonates. My video interview with Oppenheim is featured in this post.
Lance Oppenheim’s contact with director Darren Aronofsky was not gifted to the young filmmaker. Instead, he tried to track down Aronofsky’s email address until he ultimately found him (this discovery came through a contact, but not without much determination).
The proof is in the pudding, and Aronofsky became one of the indie projects biggest supporters. Unlike many documentaries, Some Kind of Heaven is stylized to give The Villages a 1950s, suburban dreamland type of vide (think Douglas Sirk meets Carl Hiassen).
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