The Rain Event

Montecito documentary maker Harry Rabin‘s latest work, The Night It Rained Boulders, about the recent fire, flash floods, and mudslides in our rarefied enclave, has been showing on The Weather Channel.

The 44-minute film took two months to come to fruition with Harry, 64, starting shooting December 4 with the outbreak of the Thomas Fire, which devastated more than 300,000 acres, and January’s earth-moving disasters that killed more than 20 people and destroyed more than 115 homes.

“I was personally impacted getting stuck in the mud,” says Harry. “I went out of my car window on the corner of East Valley Road, crawled on a wall and started shooting the rescues. It was insane!”

The documentarian has a considerable history, having worked with the late Mike deGruy for a number of years, including his last film, Deepwater Rising, about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as providing footage for National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, PBS, CNN and MSNBC.

Harry, who has also worked with a host of celebrities, including Jeff Bridges, Billy Baldwin, Dave Crosby, Billy Idol, Kenny Loggins, Jack Johnson, and Jackson Browne, is now working on another film about the fire and flood with Lis Leader and Tom Piozet for the major TV networks.