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The making of CAROLINA CAUGHT: two years later
Click here for more information on the original documentary CAROLINA CAUGHT
2010 started off as a good year for the 2008 ETV documentary “CAROLINA CAUGHT”. It won an Emmy for the Documentary-Topical category at the 2010 Southeast Emmy Awards in Atlanta. (Shot and edited in 2008, it didn’t air until 2009 which made it eligible for the 2010 Emmy Awards.) “CAROLINA CAUGHT” also won a Bronze Telly Award for Videography/Cinematography, and the Hattaway family featured in the documentary were thrilled to hear about the awards. But in October of 2010 Arthur Joseph received a call from Debbie Hattaway with some bad news.
Amy Shumaker wanted Mark Adams to edit his own version of the show to be an update to “CAROLINA CAUGHT” for the Carolina Stories website. This shorter version – 10 to 15 minutes long – would be a companion piece to the original program but not intended to be aired ‘open circuit’ on ETV. Originally Mark wanted to take the raw footage and start from scratch to edit this update. But he was so happy with what Mark Quinn and Danielle Kent had done with the episode “SC Shrimping Industry” that he decided to take what they had done and expand upon it. Mark Adams also decided to go ahead and make a brand new 30-minute documentary as he had envisioned making when planning to film this update. The result was a new documentary “CAROLINA CAUGHT: two years later” (2011).
The first two thirds of “THE BIG PICTURE” episode “SC Shrimping Industry” was about the Hattaways, but the last 10 minutes or so was an interview Mark Quinn did (and Mark Adams filmed) with New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe, who had written a fictional book about South Carolina shrimpers called “Last Light Over Carolina”. For Mark’s new documentary he wanted to take out Mary Alice Monroe’s interview, since she had nothing to do with the original “CAROLINA CAUGHT” documentary, and add more interviews with Debbie and Errol Hattaway along with some dramatic moments in the store and on the “Betty H” that THE BIG PICTURE didn’t use. Mark also included a deleted scene from the 2008 documentary “CAROLINA CAUGHT” with Errol talking about how the coastline has changed over the years.
CAROLINA CAUGHT two years later
“The shrimp boat – simple, sturdy - and for many, a symbol synonymous with the Low Country. For generations boat captains have fished the rich waters off of our South Carolina coastline. And their families have been fixtures in the small shrimping villages that were once many in number, but today are slowly disappearing.
And many long time observers of the industry say that if you want to chronicle the story of the South Carolina shrimper, their heritage and legacy, you better act now. That as we speak, this proud symbol of hard work and dedication and rugged individualism is slowly sailing off into the sunset. As you’re about to find out, what shrimpers are left are the last of a vanishing breed, and many fear are about to become extinct.
When Mark Adams went back to see Errol Hattaway in October of 2010, the “Betty H” was sitting dockside – idle – and about to be sold and shipped to a family of shrimpers in South Louisiana. So this is, as they say, the rest of the story. And the ending is a mix of unhappiness and uncertainty.
We returned two years later, to a store that was about to close its doors. And for the Hattaways it’s as if the rug had been pulled out from underneath their feet. Battered by a recession that’s hit most of America, and undercut by historically low process for shrimp, there was no way for their seafood market to survive.
Just a few miles away in the docks of McClellanville was Errol Hattaway. He’s still a shrimper, but now he is no longer the captain of his own boat. Forced to sell the “Betty H”, Captain Hatt now pilots the Necia Ann, a boat owned by a North Carolina business man. For the first time since he was a teenager, Errol Hattaway is not his own boss. And the larger question is this; if the man widely regarded by many as the best in the business in South Carolina can’t make it as a captain of his own boat, what does that say about the future of shrimping in our state?” – Narration by Mark Quinn, THE BIG PICTURE
“Less and less shrimp boats. People are realizing that they can’t make it shrimping. People are selling their boats, and the price of boats right now – it’s really, really sad but the price of shrimp boats is $20,000…you’re lucky if you get that. People are offering $15,000 and that’s nothing. And that’s with all of the equipment, everything!” – Christina Hattaway
CAROLINA CAUGHT: two years later
Directed by Mark Adams Host Mark Quinn
Field Producer Mark Adams Coordinating Producer Aimee Crouch Producer/Writer Mark Quinn Videographers/EFP crew Mark Adams Arthur Joseph Xavier Blake Editors Danielle Kent Mark Adams Production Assistant Nathalie Alexander Technical Manager Allen Ott Production Manager Keith Galloway Carolina Stories Executive Producer Amy Shumaker Director of News/Public Affairs Tom Posey Director of Broadcast Content Don Godish VP of Broadcast Content Kerry Feduk President and CEO Lynda O’Bryon Special Thanks to The Hattaways McClellanville, SC Aimee Crouch Mark Quinn Danielle Kent “THE BIG PICTURE”
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