All photos by Jim Beckwith

A Puppet Intervention takes you behind the curtain of one of the most innovative and original theatrical events in North Carolina. Radical puppetry as alternative community theater - all to a killer soundtrack.

    Get your hand out of that sock.  Paperhand Puppet Intervention blows away what it means to put on a puppet show.    

    Bursting forth with dance, shadow puppets, stilt walking, masks, music and even a little vaudeville, this film follows the tumultuous creation of one show, the 2007 production of "A Shoe for Your Foot."

     Since 1998, Paperhand founders Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger have been recycling discarded cloth, donated paint and cardboard found in dumpsters to create spectacular summer shows and festival pageants. Theater doesn't get any more grassroots than this.

    A show wouldn't be a show, however, is the music created by one of the most original and versatile bands in North Carolina.

    Sponsored by the Southern Documentary Fund, A Puppet Intervention is a production of Fork in the Road Films and directed by Mark Barroso.