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Documentary Screening Room
| Trailer for "Jonas Gerard: A Distinctive Voice" | |  | | Jonas Gerard is quite a character and his life is as colorful as his art. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, he immigrated to the United States at a young age and spent time making movies and painting in New York as a teenager. His travels took him around the country and Mexico, and his stories are incredible. This clip is a trailer for the feature film about Jonas' life, his philosophy, and his art. The feature documentary has been pre-selected to premiere at the 2010 Asheville Film Festival in North Carolina. | | Format: | 24p MiniDV | | Runtime: | 2min 38sec |
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| Trailer for "Our Stories" - Underage Drinking Documentary | |  | | Client: | LEAD (Linking Efforts Against Drugs) | | Producer: | LEAD & Bitter Jester Creative |
| | This online trailer promotes a short documentary we produced in association with LEAD, a Lake Forest, IL-based 501c(3) organization focused on raising awareness about teen drug and alcohol use . The short documentary itself (available for sale here) has gone on to win four trophy awards (an Aurora, a Telly, a Communicator, and a Davey), was a runner-up for a 2008 Hermes Award, won "Best Public Service Documentary" at the First Annual Gorton Film Festival in 2009, is mandatory viewing for all Lake Forest Jr. High teachers, and has been incorporated into the official curriculum at Lake Forest High School. Needless to say, we are very proud of this piece! The musical score (composed by Philip Glass) is used with permission. | | Format: | Mini-DV | | Runtime: | 1min 58sec |
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| Space Elevator - Character Intro | |  | | Twenty-five teams from around the world, ten days of competition, and a single challenge: to build and test the technologies that might one day power a Space Elevator. Using our footage from the 2007 Spaceward Games as the backbone of this project, we are in-production of an in-depth feature-length documentary examining the people behind this fascinating and non-traditional project - one that challenges you to think against the norm. This particular clip introduces some of the participants involved in the Spaceward Games and encompasses just a handful of people we have interviewed. Less a cohesive narrative and more a slice of the various personalities we will follow throughout our documentary, this piece is the first step in telling this incredible story. | | Format: | 24p MiniDV | | Runtime: | 6min 21sec |
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| Space Elevator - Project Overview | |  | | A second sample edit from our trip to the 2007 Spaceward Games. This piece first uses (with permission) a popular computer animation to show the "grand" vision of what the Space Elevator might one day become. It then takes a look at the current realities by showing footage of one of the many participating teams as they attempt to compete in the Spaceward Games. This clip is just a snippet of the many complexities involved in the competition and serves as an introduction to both the visionary future and hard realities of this fast-paced and sometimes hazardous challenge. | | Format: | 24p MiniDV | | Runtime: | 3min 3sec |
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| Tim O. | |  | ** Contains some strong language **
This award-winning short documentary is a spirited five-camera interview with Second City teacher and actor Tim O'Malley. O'Malley was on the main stage with Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Bob Odenkirk, and David Pasquesi until his life fell apart due to drugs. He is a recovered addict who has turned his life around. This is part of his story. | | Format: | Hi-8, Digital-8, VHS, MiniDV (60fps), MiniDV (30fps) | | Runtime: | 15min 20sec |
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| Meet The Honorees 2008 | |  | | This short documentary was commissioned by the local Chamber of Commerce in 2008. Created in homage to some of the short documentaries of Errol Morris, it showcases high school students honored at an annual dinner. The production allowed the audience to get a sense of the nominees' personalities... and: it's just plain fun! | | Format: | MiniDV | | Runtime: | 19min 32sec |
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| Meet the Honorees 2009 | |  | | This short documentary was commissioned by the local Chamber of Commerce in 2008. Created in homage to some of the short documentaries of Errol Morris, it showcases high school students honored at an annual dinner. The production allowed the audience to get a sense of the nominees' personalities... and: it's just plain fun! | | Format: | MiniDV | | Runtime: | 16min 45sec |
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