Here’s the first 3 minutes of an artist portrait and company profile we’re producing for Roger Questel and his company, Questech. Roger was a young and struggling woodworker living in a store front in New York City who one night, while tinkering away in his kitchen laboratory, discovered a metal compound that allowed him to affordably cast his work in bronze. This dixie cup eureka moment was the foundation for Questech, the world’s leading maker of decorative tiles and home accessories in cast metal. Artistry and imagination in Vermont.
Part of our “Kids with Cameras” campaign, we’ve been working with schools in the northeast to produce student centered mini-docs. Here’s one we filmed with the help of our good pal, a fine young director in the making, Dash, to help promote his school’s skatepark. Dash is a student at The Greenwood School, a junior boarding school dedicated to taking bright and talented boys with learning differences and learning disabilities such as dyslexia, attentional difficulties or executive functioning deficits and empowering them with the skills and strategies necessary to bridge the gap between their outstanding promise and present abilities.
Black Patti is on island!
We tell a modern fisherman’s tale of man eating sharks and the grizzled men and women who seek them out. The Martha’s Vineyard Annual Shark Tournament is a huge draw for the island every summer when hoards of fisherman attack the high seas in search of monster sharks, but naturally the tournament is surrounded in blood, controversy, and tourism. We’ll show you how this big game festival promotes conservation and science just as much as entertainment and tourism. This edge of your seat documentary is full of heartbreak, triumph, and life and death battles between man and beast.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat..
From our Digital Apocalypse series comes “From Vinyl with Love”, a heartbreaking and hopeful love story focusing on a recording industry turned upside down. Watch as MP3’s and digital media simultaneously bring music to the masses and cripple an industry. Learn how Vinyl makes a comeback, see how file sharing makes felons out of 8 year olds, how independent music takes the lead, and how an entire industry is brought to it’s knees by one man. Learn why the RIAA is a war on music and culture, but with revenues at an all time low how does a failing model survive? We shed light on the biggest problem and compliment of our time – the digitization of everything, starting with music.
Sketches: A mellow mood at Shea and Matt’s.
Sketches: A young Dorset rebel takes to the street.
Meet T.R. Alden, a wildly eccentric and gifted pianist from
Southern Vermont who finds beauty and warmth in the darkness.
In October we are heading deep into the south, into the heart of New Orleans, the last great bastion of living folk culture in the United States to bring you the story of Sissy Bounce stars Katey Red, Big Freedia, and Sissy Nobby.
New Orleans is the only place on earth where this music could develop. Sissy Bounce is a raw take on party music from the ghetto employing gay rappers with dancehall-esque call and response dance parties that celebrate the life and times of New Orleans and contemporary American black culture. This positive high energy booty beat music is a pure synthesis of a life lived in the heat of the New Orleans ghetto.