Heartland Truly Moving Pictures has accepted a film we worked on, The Greatest Return, for their 2011 festival as an Official Selection, Short Documentary category. The Greatest Return tells the story of some of the most legendary conservationists of our time – Heroes for the natural world, gathered to discuss their views on past, present, and future issues that threaten the livelihoods of all living creatures, including us.
Directed by Matt Mays of Mays Entertainment, the film stars Elephant Biologist, Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Cheetah Conservationist, Dr. Laurie Marker, Snow Leopard Expert, Dr. Rodney Jackson, Ocean Ecologist, Dr. Carl Safina, and Landscape Preservationist, Dr. Gerardo Ceballos. We travel to Kenya, Nepal, Namibia, Mexico, and across the oceans to see these conservationists at work.
I’m proud to have contributed to this film as both a Director of Photography and as part of a team of editors. The majority of editorial was by Cory Fisher, with additional work by Tim Wilsbach and myself. Jason Roney was our field sound recordist. Color correction and finishing of the film was completed by Marc Wellington at Creative Media Group International, with audio mix by Brice Bowman at Earshot Audio Post.
For our screening times and more information about the Heartland Film Festival – http://www.trulymovingpictures.org/
Following up on last year’s successful spots for the South hospital, Community Hospital engaged us to produce these three spots for their North campus. Creative was provided by Community’s marketing team, with production and editorial by Hi Def Pictures.
This is a 30 second spot to promote St.Vincent Carmel Emergency Department’s ‘Center of Excellence’ designation. We shot the spot on location at St.Vincent Carmel, primarily in their emergency department. This was a fun one as I had the chance to do some nice dolly shots, mixed with some handheld work. It was shot with my VariCam 2700, using a set of Zeiss DigiPrime lenses.
Agency: St. Claire Group
Creative: Well Done Marketing
Director: Matt Mays, Mays Entertainment
Producer: Mark Carrell
Production & Editorial: Hi Def Pictures
Audio Post: Earshot Audio Post
Color Correction & Finish: Creative Media Group International
On September 25, 2010, the awarding of the 2010 Indianapolis Prize was celebrated at a black tie gala. The majority of the evening’s entertainment consisted of 6 short films, one on each of the finalists nominated for the Prize. The films were produced, written & directed by Matt Mays of Mays Entertainment. I had the pleasure of shooting all of them, with field sound recording by Jason Roney . The video above was used to open the evening.
This was an amazing project, to say the least. It consisted of travel to six different locations in five countries, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Namibia and Kenya. It was my first trip to Africa, and those two locations made a lasting impression. We only had the opportunity to spend three to five days with each finalist, but we covered a wealth of material on each shoot. We came away with some wonderful footage, and Matt turned it into great stories with editorial by Cory Fischer at Edit Pointe.
The short film below is the profile of Iain Douglas-Hamilton, winner of the 2010 Indianapolis Prize.
The other five films, including profiles of Carl Safina, Laurie Marker, Gerardo Ceballos, Amanda Vincent and Rodney Jackson, can be found here.
ABOUT The Indianapolis Prize:
www.indianapolisprize.org – “The $100,000 biennial award is given to an individual animal conservationist who has made significant achievements in advancing sustainability of an animal species or group of species. It represents the largest individual monetary award for animal conservation in the world and is given as an unrestricted gift to the chosen recipient.”
ABOUT Iain Douglas-Hamilton, winner of the 2010 Indianapolis Prize:
“Relentless in his lifelong devotion to the elephants’ survival, Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Ph.D., has been named the 2010 recipient of the Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation. In recognition for his lifetime achievements, Dr. Douglas-Hamilton will receive $100,000 and the Lilly Medal at a gala ceremony presented by Cummins Inc. on Sept. 25, 2010, at The Westin Hotel in Indianapolis.” (www.indianapolisprize.org)
This is a spot we produced this summer for St.Vincent Hospital with Archie Manning on atrial fibrillation. AFIB is an irregular heartbeat, and the creative for this spot played on that concept of rhythm, as well as the fact that Archie Manning hails from New Orleans. The jazz band in the spot plays an irregular beat to bring attention to the abnormal rhythm of atrial fibrillation.
We shot this spot on location at the Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis. It served as a great location, with the only downside being we had to load in at four in the morning so we’d be sure to wrap before they needed to open the place in the afternoon. As always, Mr. Manning was professional and did a great job.
Everything was shot on our Panasonic VariCam with a set of Zeiss DigiPrime lenses. Offline in Final Cut Pro with final color correction and finish on Smoke by Creative Media Group.
Agency: St. Claire Group
Creative: Well Done Marketing
Director: Matt Mays
Production & Editorial: Hi Def Pictures
Color Correction & Finish: Creative Media Group
Audio Recording & Post: RippleFX
