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Natalie Kestecher

Original movie poster for The Sound of Music. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Von Trapped

Natalie Kestecher, Third Coast International Audio Festival, April 2001

Producer Natalie Kestecher pushes the boundaries of audio storytelling in this humorous yet poignant commentary about the rise of anti-Semitism in Austria earlier this century. She injects herself into the story as a fictional protagonist obsessed with the movie The Sound of Music and infatuated with Captain Georg Von Trapp. If the aim of a documentary is to highlight an emotional truth, then this device works because it’s so easy to identify with the fictional Natalie, who guides us along a narrative arc that both surprises and entertains.

(First aired on ABC RN)

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