millions of people planning to watch the Great American eclipse today and many of which are traveling Far Far and Away to see the best views along the path of totality Holton Maine one of those spots rural Township less than 6,000 people expected to see 40,000 people come visit town to witness the event in the hours ahead one pair of filmmakers is capturing holton's Eclipse Adventure in a feature link the documentary it's called a moment in the Sun and here now live from Holton Maine are the fil
mmakers Mia Weinberger and Thomas van culin thanks for being here why Holton Maine well it's all started I really wanted to see the total solar eclipse I've never seen one Tom saw the last one in 2017 in Oregon and so Tom said okay Mia research where you want to go see it and I was doing some research and I came across Holton and they had this really great marketing uh from you know over a year ago uh marketing that it's the last town to see it in the United States and I saw how much planning th
ey were putting into it and I really did a deep dive on Holton and suddenly was watching a a video of one of their public forums about the eclipse and I kind of just fell in love and I said I want to go to Holton and Tom half jokingly said this would be a good documentary because we're both filmmakers and here we are well I'm curious how you make a a featurelength film out of four minutes of totality um what's the plan well the the the film itself is more about the town itself coming together an
d preparing for the eclipse the question that we came with when we watched that uh public forum was like there's so many good interesting like people and characters here who were just giving talks and it was obvious that they cared so much about this town and making sure that this town was going to be portrayed in a good light when you know all of these visitors came and it seems like a very uh you know a thing that's common among a lot of like these small like rural townships is they don't get
much Spotlight but when they do they want to make sure they put their best foot forward and they're able to uh show off so the the the film itself is more about the town and how it's coming together and how does a town of 5,000 people welcome 40,000 stargazers over the course of just one day how do you prepare for that kind of thing yeah and now that you're there and you're seeing all these people Converge on Holton I what's the atmosphere like and and how are people doing and and handling it oh
it's so exciting we've been here for the last week so we've really seen Holton ramp up from its normal state to where it is now which I mean we're staying right downtown so right outside our door there's tons of people outside there's drumming there's dancing there people are waving flags it's so exciting out there and we're just under four hours away from totality and you can just feel this excitement bubbling it's it's a really exciting moment here in Holton yeah it it really is cool a moment
in the sun is the name of the film tell me something about Holton guys that you have learned now that you're there that most people wouldn't know who have never visited well I think one thing that kind of like stuck out to me is the fact that there's a lot of these kind of like small towns that you drive through on your way to getting somewhere else or maybe you don't even drive through them because you just take the the highway or the freeway but it really goes to show that if you like stop an
d you meet the people like we've met so many interesting people who have so many different like varying you know opinions and varying outlooks on life and different like Lifestyles they exist like all over the all over the country and all over the world and that's the kind of thing that that I've taken away from this is that if you just stop and sit down and meet the people uh there's stories everywhere that's beautiful and it's so so true we have so many communities that are overlooked often ov
erlooked who is the star of your film and I guess pun intended is it the sun the sun is definitely one of the stars but uh the star is really the Community itself but we're we're focusing on about five main uh people that we've met from the community uh who all sort of play different roles in the eclipse one of them uh the eclipse is kind of her baby she's been PL on the eclipse committee from the beginning really the head of planning everything that's going on uh one of them has uh an embroider
y shop and is selling uh embroidery just for the eclipse uh so we've got people sort of involved in different ways who are all adding their own special thing to the eclipse well can't wait to see it it's a moment in the sun enjoy today I know you've got a lot of filming to do and you're asking for the public to submit their images and videos as well so they can all be part of it uh thank you both it's been fun chatting with you hey thanks so much thank you for watching go to newsnation now.com t
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