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Oct
26
Finding Traction: Feature Documentary
Posted by Ryan A
on 26 Oct 2012
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Danny Schmidt is an award winning shooter who has worked with the National Science Foundation, PBS, NatGeo, and Christi Kuhn of the TRUST Foundation under ColorBurn Productions. Danny has also covered a wide array of social ecological issues, some of which can be seen by visiting his Vimeo channel. He shot the film on an FS100 [...]
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Jul
27
Equipment Tetris: Flying a Film Set Out to Rural Africa
Posted by Ryan A
on 27 Jul 2012
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What follows is a guest post by a colleague of ours, Jeremy Teicher–but first, some backstory. I spoke with Jeremy about a year ago, back when he was preparing his feature narrative film, then tentatively titled “La Promesse” (now Grande Comme le Baobob–translated to Tall as the Baobob Tree) He came to us by word [...]
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Dec
14
Chris Cloyd’s “Lady Madonna Project”
Posted by Ryan A
on 14 Dec 2011
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Some months ago the ikan brand had a chance to travel to Nigeria, with Anna Schwaber and Director Chris Cloyd for his documentary entitled the “Lady Madonna Project,” for the Western African Development Support Organization (WADSO). Initally, Anna piqued my interest by sending this, written by Chris: “We will be filming a documentary piece [...]
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Dec
30
Gratis 7 review ikan equipment used “in the wild” on documentary “RISING FROM ASHES”
Posted by ikan
on 30 Dec 2010
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Sometimes your product sells itself. Sometimes people like to help, go beyond the expected and act from grace. That’s the way Gratis 7 Media group is. If you haven’t heard of them, I highly recommend you go educate yourself (here’s a link). Their latest film, RISING FROM ASHES, documents the struggles of creating a Rwandan [...]
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Dec
20
(Part III/III) Rising From Ashes: A Feature Documentary
Posted by ikan
on 20 Dec 2010
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(Part I, Part II) Part III of the series “RISING FROM ASHES: A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY“ Last week on the ikan Blog, we began our interview with documentary filmmaker/Director, TC Johnstone, regarding his latest feature entitled: “Rising to Ashes”–a powerful, well-shot, beautiful, full-of-hope documentary which captures the struggle of Rwanda’s only competitive cycling team, as they grow [...]
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Dec
13
(Part II/III) Rising From Ashes: A Feature Documentary
Posted by ikan
on 13 Dec 2010
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This is Part II of III in our series “Rising from Ashes: A Feature Documentary.” Read Part I HERE for a recap of last week. I’ve reposted the trailer of RISING FROM ASHES here for your convenience. Also included are some excellent photos TC has sent us from the shoot. It all began when TC Johnstone and his [...]
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