ONE BIG HOME
comes to Door County
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On the tiny Island of Martha's Vineyard giant "trophy homes" are threatening the island's unique character. And for carpenter Thomas Bena, it bothered him a lot that he was helping to build them. So Bena traded his tool belt for a camera in an attempt to understand the motivation behind these oversized homes.
Bena had no idea where his filming efforts would take him. But after a decade of interviews with owners, builders, architects, planning officials, and local citizens, he realized he had a bigger story to tell.
"I decided I had to dig deeper than anger to have any meaningful effect on my local community," Bena says. "If a community doesn't take an active role in deciding its own destiny then the market will decide for them." So Bena helped lead a local effort in the town of Chilmark to pass a bylaw limiting house size. "I didn't know how to change local regulation," Bena says. "So I filmed the process of someone with no experience (me) trying to do so."
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"A community gets to decide their own destiny– and if they don’t take an active role then the market will decide for them."
-Thomas Bena, Director
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Still Photos courtesy of ONE BIG HOME and Elephant in the Room Productions.
Film Director Thomas Bena to attend Door County Screening!
Thursday July 27, 2017 at 8:00 p.m.
3926 Hwy 42 Fish Creek, Wisconsin 920-868-2728
For more information on the film and to watch a trailer please visit