The Telegraph Updated 11:50 am CST, Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Mercurio-Cherrier Mercurio-Cherrier Mercurio-Cherrier Mercurio-Cherrier HARTFORD — A filmmaker who created a movie in Hartford last year now has four online film projects. In 2019, Elle Mercurio-Cherrier used the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford as the setting for her horror film “Claimed” set in 1857. The film had its Illinois debut in February at the historic site in Hartford. More than 250 people worked on the film, which she said also was a metaphor for the hundreds of thousands of heroin addicts who go missing in the U.S. every day. “Most people assume drug addiction is the result of a bad childhood or sustained exposure to drug use by others,” she said. “Sometimes it’s the consequence of prescription drug use that spirals out of control.” Since then Mercurio-Cherrier has been busy. She said she aims to make movies that make an impact on addiction. Currently, her movies are more show than tell, she said, eschewing “a didactic approach” for something more expressionistic and emotional as to help audiences connect to the epidemic and understand it fully. Amid COVID-19, she has her future in film to a new online platforms…
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Riverbend filmmaker has 4 new projects
