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The Elders: It’s starting to happen!
While I was gone filming for the last 6 weeks, something pretty awesome happened for my first feature-length film The Elders: Kickstarter selected it to be shown in their 2nd annual film festival! Check out the poster: They showed a short segment from the film along with 11 other projects that were successfully funded during [...]
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Storytelling Around the World
Everyone has a story – and it doesn’t matter where on this planet you reside! I recently returned from a 6.5 week round the world shooting project that still has my head spinning and has left my heart racing. It’s impossible for me to recount what I’ve experienced in that time while visiting Venezuela, Brazil, [...]
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Feature Documentary Utilizes Zeiss ZF.2 Lenses to Maximize Look on Minimum Budget Documentary
Zeiss ZF.2 Lenses Take Low Budget Feature Documentary to the Next Level In May 2010, I set out to make a low-budget-high-quality documentary feature film about elderly Americans. I raised the funds on kickstarter ($12,500), got an unsolicited and very generous donation from an LA based non-profit, and by mid June found myself on a [...]
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The Elders documentary project lands on Kickstarter’s 2010 Award list!
I was thrilled to see that my documentary film project The Elders was listed as one of two other honorable mentions under the category of “Best Short Film” projects on kickstarter this year (2010). What an honor! With thousands of projects to choose from, it’s a pretty awesome feeling to have my work recognized in [...]
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A New kind of Documentary
I’ve been saying for years that high quality filmmaking and real world stories should meet up in documentary film. It’s what I strive for, and aspire to. Filmmaking friend Ryan Gibb and his partners have teamed up to make one of the most visually stunning films I’ve ever seen, LifeCycles. You can watch the trailer [...]
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In the News
In The News: Over the last month, I’ve noticed two big spikes in traffic on my vimeo.com videos page. Yesterday, my inbox was flooded with emails from people on Vimeo – commenting and “liking” my videos. The sudden influx surprised me and I suspected it had been linked to from somewhere. To my pleasant surprise, [...]
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Documentary Short Clip – Dorcas
The editing process in a documentary film is often long and tedious. I interviewed 20 people for this project, with a few more still on the list. Most of the interviews lasted for about 2 hours, which means I have approximately 40 hours of footage to be trimmed down to 70-80 minutes. A mammoth task, [...]
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One Day On Earth
I was recently featured on the One Day On Earth webcast, which caught me by surprise and was quite exciting. One Day On earth is an exciting film project that will aim to capture a portrait of the earth and its inhabitants on 10.10.10, or the tenth day of October 2010. I’m very excited about [...]
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Documentary Tech Article
Edward Delaney over at Documentarytech.com reached out a while back to see if I would discuss my kickstarter documentary project The Elders. We spoke on the phone for about 40 minutes, and two weeks later this article was posted to his site. Nathaniel Hansen is getting ready to take a cross-country road trip to find [...]
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Brazil – Short Documentary for Row6.com