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P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N UA RY / F E B R UA RY 2 0 1 7 119 Opening spread, main image: Charley Bordelon, recently returned to Louisiana from Los Angeles, on her path of rehabilitating her late father Ernest's 800- acre farm—with Remy (Dondre Whitfield), a local character. Right, top to bottom: A view from Ernest's porch out to the cane fields, a relationship that director Ava DuVernay was looking for. A view from Ernest's kitchen window, looking out onto the sugarcane. Charley and Remy getting ready for a family party at Violet's house. Opposite page, top to bottom: A SketchUp ® rendering of the added porch by Ray Pumilia. The house at the center of the story— where the Bordelon family was raised— before cleaning it up and adding the new porch entry. Violet and Ralph Angel out on Ernest's porch, pondering the farm's future. Top, clockwise from top left: Four views of the house on the St. Joseph Plantation as Ernest left it: his kitchen; his living room; looking from Ernest's home office into the bedroom where Charley and her son Micah stay; Ernest's home office. Above: Ernest's dining room. and all plantations within an hour and a half of New Orleans. Ava wanted a house that was right next to the sugar cane fields. Guided by local location manager Leonard Reynolds, we were fortunate to come across an old house on the St. Joseph Plantation. The house was a plantation manager's home that had been built in the 1800s, and the folks who currently manage the plantation were kind enough to allow us to augment this historic structure. Although of historical value, many plantations are open to filming for added income and to advertise the fact that a show like Queen Sugar was filmed there. For years, Louisiana has been a hotbed for filming, and today, plantation tours focus on the films and television projects filmed there just as much as the other historical claims. In most cases, all buildings on a plantation's property face the main road they're situated on and look away from the cane fields. Ava requested we change the main entry to the side of the house, in order to film scenes on the porch overlooking the cane fields, which