The Ripple Effect Filmmaker Latek on “Deep and Dark Places” of Impaired Driving

The Ripple Effect Filmmaker Latek on “Deep and Dark Places” of Impaired Driving

Rhode Island filmmaker Eric Latek — who teamed up with the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and RDW Group in Providence to create The Ripple Effect series to raise awareness around impaired driving — spoke to creating the powerful videos on GoLocal LIVE.

“The mission was to go in and look through the eyes of everything possible — that was a difficult process of having to see some really difficult things to film and capture,” said Latek. 

“So it was going though the eyes and going further — not just gratuitous but to show you the aftermath throughout the eyes of family members and deep and dark places,” said Later. “[It was] having to film explicit content whether being in a freezer of body bags — one of the most difficult things I’ve had to do — to being on the road with rescue trying to capture and incident. Just having the camera rolling for anything, to be in the moment of these horrible tragedies.”