This post is part of a Spotlight series covering our contest winners for ikan’s “Where’s the Missing Piece” short film contest for 2011. We will be covering 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the coming weeks so stay tuned and share the experience. Cool dudes Samuel Thomas and Louis Hunter of Hunter Thomas Creative, hailing [...]
Our short film competition really brought in some class A talent this year, so I’d like to showcase each of our winners and their place in the industry, including what they do and how they worked to win our celebrity judges over by being showered with mad rubric points. Our Honorable Mention, Caroline Pires, was [...]
**UPDATE** We are hosting a new giveaway for the first five (count your digits on one hand) people to tweet images of these prototype lights, expected to hit shelves in January. Follow us on twitter @ikancorp to find out more, starting today. ************ **UPDATE** Ross and Barry will also be demonstrating some new LED lighting [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
Documentaries are capable of bringing masses of people an intimate connection to some one person or event or place. They are an integral tool for us as filmmakers—they give voice to culture outside ourselves, as audience members, sharing this world. And they can be compelling. Gratis 7, as per their website, believe “out of our [...]