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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Trouble in a galaxy far, far away...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BVT3HD1FG3u

Step away from Facebook and the news for a few days and all hell breaks loose. I have a not so great feeling about this...

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are talented filmmakers who have assembled an incredible cast and crew, but it’s become clear that we had different creative visions on this film, and we’ve decided to part ways. - Kathleen Kennedy

The Hollywood Reporter: Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie (Exclusive)

Ron Howard has been named as the new director of Lucasfilm and Disney's untitled Han Solo movie, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter exclusively. The official announcement came later Thursday morning.

The move comes two days after directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were let go from the movie they had spent over four-and-a-half months directing. Creative differences over style and tone came to a head between the duo and Lawrence Kasdan, with the studio backing the veteran screenwriter.

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Howard, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter, will meet with the actors — Alden Ehrenreich is playing the iconic smuggler, Donald Glover is playing Lando Calrissian, with Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke and Thandie Newton also on the roll call — to soothe a rattled set and will pore over a rough edit to see what the project needs. Filming will resume on July 10.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-han-solo-movie-ron-howard-steps-direct-1015674

This can't be good for the movie, and I hoped that the directors of The Lego Movie would be a good fit, I was looking forward to seeing what they did with Star Wars. However, the buzz was that this script is the strongest ever for a Star Wars movie and they let Lord and Miller go over creative differences with writer Lawrence Kasdan. Supporting the writer of The Empire Strikes Back and The Force Awakens seems like a solid move.

Variety suggests that the issues were primarily between uber-producer and current queen of the Star Wars universe Kathleen Kennedy (all hail our savior!) and the directors.

“Kathy, her team and Larry Kasdan have been doing it their way for a very long time. They know how the cheese is made and that’s how they want it made,” said the source. “It became a very polarizing set.”

But switching directors 3/4 through principal photography? I don't know if any show can really survive that hit. Wow. Hopefully Howard can work ninja-like magic to pull this off. If it can be done, he's one of the few with the experience and skill to do it, but I am really not sure if it can be done.

Finally, in any other situation, I am not sure I'd be a fan of seeing Howard direct a Star Wars movie for various reasons I won't get into here, but in this situation, for those very same reasons, he may just be the man for the job.

So far, there has been no change to the planned May 25, 2018 release date.

Sources have told Variety that the current scenario is very rare and is unlikely to be settled soon since the movie requires re-shoots this summer and extensive work in post-production due to special effects.

Variety: Han Solo Firing: Will Ron Howard Share Directing Credit With Lord & Miller?

Disney-Lucasfilm, Howard, Lord and Miller have also not commented on the issue of who will get the directing credit. Studio sources say they will defer to the guild’s rules.

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The DGA’s rules also preclude replacing the director with someone else already employed on the movie. That prevented Disney-Lucasfilm from naming Lawrence Kasdan as the new director despite his extensive experience in the director’s chair. That rule dates back to the firing of Philip Kaufman from 1976’s “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” In that case, Clint Eastwood, the star of the film, took over behind-the-camera duties, inciting an uproar.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/han-solo-firing-directors-guilds-credit-policies-1202476192/

Okay... Now returning to the regularly scheduled programming.

P.S. The movie is still officially unnamed. Solo is just the working title (if those are even real shirts). I think they should make it official. Keep it simple. I like it.

Links

Business Insider: The fired Han Solo directors believed they were hired to 'make a comedy'

http://www.businessinsider.com/han-solo-directors-fired-reason-2017-6

Variety: ‘Star Wars’ Han Solo Spinoff: Lord & Miller Fired After Clashing With Kathleen Kennedy (EXCLUSIVE)

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/star-wars-han-solo-kathleen-kennedy-director-fired-1202473919

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Glacier Calving from Chasing Ice

http://www.chasingice.com

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Wanderers

An amazing little film. Watch on full screen, if possible!

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.

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Friday, November 07, 2014

“Best” Documentary Films

Earlier this week I posted several lists of the “best” concert films of all time, and I thought I’d do something similar for documentaries since I’ll be resuming work on Recreating the Historic Columbia River Highway soon.

What I noticed with the concert films, though I have not been through too many of them yet, is that the best ones combine impeccably shot concert footage with some sort of narrative. And like the some of best documentaries, they don’t bang you to death with talking heads and narrators, but they let the story tell itself. Almost the opposite of the many pseudo-documentary television programs out there these days.

With concert films, too, there is a different feel to the films versus the television broadcasts and live streams. Much of this comes from a much more intentional editing process than possible in a live broadcast, but there’s more than that at work, too. There’s plenty of live concerts out there, mostly sold to the home video market, that benefits from intentional editing, but it is still just a show, some folks on a stage and some crowd shots to show how great it all is to be in the same room as the music… The best films add another dimension of time and place to the production. Sometimes this is subtle, sometimes it is more direct. With a movie like Gimme Shelter, the time and place (Altamont) actually becomes the story more than the band and their performance, though that it not right for every production. Sometimes it is just a little story or two about the production and the night, like Shine a Light, which takes about 12 minutes to get to the opening song and then never looks back.

Last night I watched Radio Bikini, a 1987 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary. It struck me how different this was from most documentary film material we see these days. There was little narration, just old clips from historical sources driving the narrative, coupled with some interview clips from two eyewitnesses. In some ways it felt vague, like we were missing a lot, but I realized that all we needed to know was told well – simply and economically, and totally unlike most of what we are used to seeing today where we are beat over the head over and over with the main talking points the producers are trying to sell us until we are numb to them….

Heading into these film projects, both the concerts and the documentary, I am not reviewing all of these old films to learn how to make these sorts of films. I already have a lot of ideas and some individual approaches to film editing that seem to serve my work well up to this point. But, I am looking to find the best examples of approaches to these films that match my own ideas about filmmaking.

If anything, this process is reassuring me that my instincts here are solid. While there are approaches other than mine that can be very successful, my desires on how to write, film and edit this sort of material is valid and worthy, which is always nice to know heading into these things.

For my current projects, I am learning a lot more about what I’d like to capture next time, before we shoot, and I think my future projects will be a lot stronger because I am taking some time to get really intentional about understanding what works and doesn’t work, what works for me and what doesn’t work, and learning how to tell certain types of stories in the best way for those types of stories to be told, whether it is one band on stage for a night or if it is 150 years of history for a region 300+ miles long…

Not a compilation of lists here, like with the concert films. Instead, just a link to a list of all the Academy Award nominees. While this might not provide an all inclusive work of the best documentaries, there’s more than enough solid work on this list to spend the time I have to spend on studying the best of what came before…

Also, it focuses on work that was made to be thought of as film, not television. Sure, there is a tremendous amount of solid documentary work that has been made for television, but I want to stay focused on film. This means, mostly to me, keeping an eye on duration and pacing. How do we tell a story in one to two hours? How do we keep it moving? How do we keep an audience interested? How do we arc the narrative across this length, which is generally either much longer than what we see in a 30 – 60 minute TV episode or much shorter than we see in a multi-episode treatment of a subject, such as Ken Burns’ work, and others?

Finally, it is interesting to note that at least two movies that showed up in the last post are on this list: Woodstock (Winner, 1970) and Buena Vista Social Club (Nominee, 1999).

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year (that is, the year they were released under the Academy's rules for eligibility). In practice, due to the limited nature of documentary distribution, a film may be released in different years in different venues, sometimes years after production is complete.

Also, please remember…

Many critically acclaimed documentaries were never nominated. Examples include Shoah, The Thin Blue Line, Roger & Me, Touching The Void, Hoop Dreams,Crumb, Paris is Burning, Grizzly Man, The Interrupters, Blackfish, Waiting for "Superman", Senna and Fahrenheit 9/11 (see below).

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, at the time the highest-grossing documentary film in movie history, was ruled ineligible because Moore had opted to have it played on television prior to the 2004 election. Previously, the 1982 winner Just Another Missing Kid had already been broadcast in Canada and won that country's ACTRA award for excellence in television at the time of its nomination.

List of films considered the best - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Documentary

Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael Moore's controversial documentary relating gun control and the culture of fear in the United States, heads the list of 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films selected by members of the International Documentary Association (IDA).^[125]^[126]
Grey Gardens (1975), the Maysles Brothers' documentary about former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's eccentric aunt and cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, was ranked as one of the greatest documentaries of all time by the International Documentary Association.^[127] The film holds an 89% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[128]
The Seven Up! series (1964-) was voted as the greatest ever documentary in a Channel 4 poll of the 50 Greatest Documentaries in 2005.^[129]
The Last Waltz (1978) is considered one of the greatest concert documentaries ever created, and has been deemed as such by Total Film,^[100] Michael Worthington of the Chicago Tribune,^[130] and by Rotten Tomatoes, where it holds a 97% favorable rating.^[131]

200 Free Documentaries Online | Open Culture: "Watch over 200 free documentaries online. The documentaries cover everything from music and cinema, to literature, religion, politics and physics. They’re thought-provoking, eye-opening, and enlightening. For more great films, please visit our complete collection, 700 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.."

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Sunday, November 02, 2014

Best Concert Films Ever?

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

NaNoWriMo 2013 & 2014

Last November and next November are a long way off, and it is a testament to how busy this year has been that I still haven’t posted about my 2013 NaNoWriMo belly flop until now, but I wanted to preserve this piece of joy before taking it down off my blog:

I was going the rebel route and trying to get some work in on my 2012 novel, which still needs to be finished. Here is the counter for the novel, same now as it was at the end of NaNoWriMo 2013:

I wrote about my goals for 2013 last November, so I won’t go into detail here, but they were not about writing 50,000 words in a month, or even finishing the novel, but they involved getting back in touch with that novel and, mostly, carving out time in my schedule and building routines and habits to work on writing every day.

So what happened?

Mostly, I realized that I already was writing a book, though a non-fiction one, Recreating the Historic Columbia River Highway, and that my schedule did not allow me time to work on two books at once while trying to raise the boys and start a business and… and… and… all the things that fill my days.

In fact, going through that process is one of the things that made me realize that I am writing a book on the HCRH.

Sure, I had a book as a part of the overall general plan with that project, but it wasn’t until last November that that piece started to feel real to me. Until then, my focus was on the movie, and research to support the movie.

So where am I now with these projects?

With the novel, it is pretty much written in my head, so to finish the rough draft it is really just pounding out the details and dialog into the computer.

However, people change over time and the stories we want to tell changes with us. While I still love that story and am dying to get it out into the world, the way I want to tell it has changed a bit, so I after finishing the rough draft, I will be going back and rewriting the whole thing before sharing it.

And when will these drafts be finished? I have no way of telling, right now. There are a lot of variables, but I hope to get a draft out to some test readers sometime in the next two years. Best case scenario, it will be 2015, but considering that the HCRH book is my main priority right now, and that I want to have it on sale by the fall of 2015, 2015 is pretty unlikely for the novel, since I doubt I will have time to write two books at once.

And then there is all the photography and video work to be done…

And then there are the boys’ tutoring and homework and…

Oh, bother.

I can sleep when I am dead!

But I love this stuff, and it will all get done eventually. Of that, I have little doubt.

Oh, and NaNoWriMo 2014? Not sure yet. Maybe. Probably not. We’ll see what happens once the boys are back in school.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Tim Burton’s 1982 Hansel & Gretel for Disney

Tim Burton made a very bizarre adaptation of HANSEL & GRETEL in 1982 and need I say more!?! - Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: "This was all made on a budget of $116,000 and obviously was not what Disney thought they were getting when they gave Burton the money to make the film. It never screened on television again, and only screened a few times as part of a traveling Burton exhibit by The Museum of Modern Art. Thankfully, we live in an age where nothing is truly lost, (except THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED) and the film has been found and uploaded to YouTube for all of us to enjoy. Trust me, it is even more bizarre than it sounds and is a nice piece of film history."

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Orson Scott Card v. Ender: Boycotting Ender’s Game is Bad for Art

With so many artists we have to separate the work from the artist, because a lot of them ARE (or were) asshats. And yes, sometimes they head so far off into the crazy that it is tempting to not "support" their art because we don't want to see a single one of our dimes fall into their pockets, or even offer them any tacit support of their ideas...

However, what has happened with Ender's Game seems like a real shame to me. It is a great book and I am really looking forward to the movie. I will see it. I will pay to see it. And, I suppose, that means giving a few dimes to OSC. But it also means giving a few dimes to the other artists who've contributed to this movie as well.

With Card, reading his more recent books is pretty painful because they are far from the brilliance of Ender's Game or Speaker For The Dead (which is even greater than Ender, IMHO). They are great examples of what happens when one's ego consumes one's talent. I also think this is what happened to Card politically, he got some traction in certain circles and then ran the football into the full crazy end zone.

But at the end of the day, I choose to support the great art and ideas expressed in Ender’s Game and Speaker, and I can do this without supporting the rest. This movie, whether it succeeds or not, is one of the few recent attempts to bring great, classic, deep and thoughtful sci fi to the big screen and I hope it succeeds. Not because it will benefit Card, but because its success will benefit the art, and hopefully encourage the production of more great sci fi movies based on big ideas and that don't sacrifice great writing for big effects and action sequences.

So blacklist OSC if you must, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Supporting this movie is a lot different than throwing down $30 bucks for OSC's next hardcover piece of ego fueled drivel, and it is a good thing.

Orson Scott Card: Mentor, Friend, Bigot | Underwire | Wired.com:

"As a college student, I corresponded extensively with Orson Scott Card. For several years, I considered him a mentor and a friend. He was incredibly generous with his time and advice, and supportive of me as an aspiring fiction writer. I’ve had dinner at his home.
"I was out during that time. I was also largely unaware of the extremity of Card’s politics. His political reputation was much quieter back then — most of his internet presence was concentrated around a network of online writing workshop and critique groups — and his op-eds were published in circles I never stumbled into. The only time his beliefs came up in our conversations was a comment he made about fiction being a totally inappropriate venue for any kind of ideological proselytizing. I may not have agreed with his personal beliefs — I knew that he was an observant Mormon and at least somewhat politically conservative — but I respected and still respect the principle of not using fiction as a soap box, even if the author who introduced it to me has since forgotten or abandoned it."

My experience with Card is a lot like hers, without the direct contact. Back in the Pre-Internet days, he was very active on Prodigy On-Line (I think that's what it was called) and that was very cool for me, and he shared a lot of information about writing with a bunch of us wannabes. He was one of my favorite Sci Fi writers of all time (and his early books are still some of my favorites).

I was shocked last spring to hear that this movie was delayed by the studio largely because of the controversy over Card (though they denied this, if I remember correctly). I always knew that Card was a devout Mormon, but I deeply troubled to hear that the author of one of the greatest books ever about tolerance and acceptance of others (Speaker For The Dead) was so vocal and public about his intolerance for the GLBT community. To me, ensuring the success of this movie is a step towards getting THAT movie made which would do more to damage OSC's cause than boycotting this movie will.

Learning about Card’s words and actions caused me to really take a look at this issue of art v. artist. In the end, I find I still can support the art over the artist, though I think it is also important to point out that we are drawing a line in our support, too.

And, for me, this really has to do with more than just the GBLT angle in this particular case because, let's be honest, his ideas were the societal norm for the vast majority of history, so if we were to boycott all homophobic artists, we'd probably be boycotting 98% of everything ever produced, which feels wrong. And if we aren't, then it also feels wrong to boycott Card. Though being a product of his religion and times is no excuse for his public lobbying efforts…

Yet, I do think it is fair, even important and necessary, to point out when we are supporting the art over the artist, especially when they are inserting themselves into political debates. And this particular case really does sadden me because in many ways Card has shown himself to be a very decent man over the years through his support of beginning writers, even more so than I realized before reading the article above. Few writers would bring an aspiring novice home for dinner.

People are complicated. And yes, sometimes, they can really piss us off! I have friends who’s views are not too far off from Card’s and it is sometimes difficult for me to reconcile my feelings about them. But, unlike Card, they do not have a public platform to contribute to the debate, so their personal feelings are pretty much just that, and so my concerns are eased because it is hard for me to see how they are directly harming others while I can also hope that, perhaps, that my view can erode at theirs a bit over time.

With Card’s public platform, however, that isn’t the case here. His beliefs, when he lobbies against the GBLT community from a platform of intolerance and fear, is harmful to others.

But if I can reconcile these conflicting feelings about my friends, then I can do it with strangers whom I’ve never met, though it is much easier to paint strangers into black and white categories without ever knowing, or caring to know, what a complicated mess they really are.

Orson Scott Card Responds to Ender's Game Boycott With Ironic Plea for 'Tolerance' | Underwire | Wired.com:

"In a recent statement to Entertainment Weekly, Orson Scott Card responded to a proposed boycott of the upcoming film adaptation of his novel Ender’s Game by informing the movie-going public that it doesn’t really matter that he’s been working ceaselessly for the last decade to make sure gay people don’t get basic human rights, or that he advocated the violent overthrow of the government should same-sex marriage become legal, or that he’s used his position as a popular author as a platform from which to spew increasingly aggressive anti-equality rhetoric like his comment in a 2004 essay that gays ‘cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society.’"

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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Recreating the Historic Columbia River Highway: My Newest Project

This is a long term documentary video project. Just getting started…

See more here:

https://www.facebook.com/RecreatingTheHistoricColumbiaRiverHighway

Tracing the original route and history of Oregon's Historic Columbia River Highway from Troutdale to The Dalles.

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Tuesday, February 05, 2013

J. J. Abrams’ TED Talk… The Mystery Box

http://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html

Kind of all over the place, but a good reminder that when telling a story, what you do not tell is as important as what you do tell. Plus, it is all about the characters...

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Sunday, December 09, 2012

One Day On Earth: 12.12.12… So it begins

Pretty much the same post I threw up in late October about NaNoWriMo 2012.

Between working on this project and finishing the NaNoWriMo novel (I did get over 50,000 words in during November to “win” the event), I won’t be posting much on the blogs until 2013. Well, I’ll probably throw a thing or two up here on Rubble, but as for the other blogs? Unlikely.

I wanted to do something quick and easy for One Day since the more complex idea a friend and I had will be impossible, since I am in Sacramento and not Portland, but things happen and after doing some planning and discovering that there is a theme for this years event, my idea for this year will be pretty complicated to edit.

Of course, I won’t be filming until Wednesday 12.12.12, but before then there is some prep work, and after there is going to be a whole bunch of editing. And a whole bunch of writing on the novel. And a whole bunch of major life stuff.

So the blogs will remain on hold for the time being.

Yes, this is being reposted everywhere…

One Day on Earth - Film on 12.12.12 from One Day on Earth on Vimeo.

One Day On Earth - 11-11-11 - Gresham and Portland, Oregon (720p) from A. F. Litt on Vimeo.

http://www.onedayonearth.org

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

One Day On Earth: 11.11.11 Trailer

One Day on Earth: 11.11.11 from One Day on Earth on Vimeo.

I thought about just adding this clip to the previous post, but nah….

I have no idea if they will use any of my footage in the 11.11.11 film and it might be awhile before they complete it. 10.10.10, which I did not participate in, has only been in the can for a few months apparently, so who knows when 11.11.11 will be out?

But I am hoping they use a few seconds worth of footage. They did contact me a while back and request my raw videos from the day, and pestered me until I got it to them, so there’s a chance.

Unfortunately, last year I did not have an HD video camera and I was focused, due to my camera limitations, more on stills than on video. This year will be reversed. I am sure I will take some stills, but mostly I will be working on video. Because of this, though, I am not even sure if they can use my video footage from last year.

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One Day On Earth: 12.12.12 Trailer

One Day on Earth - Film on 12.12.12 from One Day on Earth on Vimeo.

I’ve been looking forward to this project since I participated in last year’s 11.11.11 filming. Last year’s project is actually what kicked my butt into getting a camera with HD video and inspiring me to start working with video more.

So I spent the last year working on my cinematography and editing skills. I’ve got a long way to go but it has been fun, and I was hoping it would all come together for 12.12.12 this year.

When I decided to participate in NaNoWriMo this year, I knew that it would make the One Day shoot something of a by the seat of my pants project, since I’ll only have 12 days to prepare. But that’s okay, because I want to keep it small. However, unlike last year, I want to focus on a more specific event, topic, or theme. I want more of a focus to my film this year than the random collage I made last year.

A couple weeks ago, my friend Sean and I came up with a great idea for this year’s shoot that, due to some major unforeseen events in my life, I will most likely not be able to participate in, an idea that would probably have grown beyond One Day On Earth and become its own short or even full length documentary eventually.

I hope Sean still shoots that idea, and I look forward to working on the larger documentary project next year, but that leaves me grabbing for new ideas for my own 12.12.12 project this year, where I will, most likely, be in a city I am less familiar with.

Perhaps that in itself is a topic or a theme. Maybe I should just hit the streets and ask people, if there was one thing that they would want to show the world about their hometown on that day, what would it be?

But these are December problems, and until December 1, I need to focus my creative energy on the novel.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

One Day On Earth: 10/10/10 Pre-sale DVDs

Donate. Purchase. Show Your Support. - One Day on Earth:

We know it has been a long wait, but 10.10.10 DVD's are finally here and shipping! From now until October 24th, you can buy the DVD at the pre-sale price of $14.99. We have beautiful posters and photo prints for sale as well.

Your purchase will help keep One Day on Earth alive for a third collaboration. In order to launch 12/12/12, we must reach our funding goal of $50,000 by October 24. This is just a fraction of the production cost, but will ensure that we will have enough producers on staff and technology updates in place.

Please consider purchasing a DVD and making a donation to help keep One Day on Earth alive for another year!

The 11/11/11 movie that I submitted some clips for is still in production. Here is my edited submission for the geotagged archive.

Today is the first time I’ve watched it in awhile. Put a lot of work into it and, unfortunately, I still have a hard time listening to that poor Walkabouts song. It used to be one of my favorites. But I like it. I am happy with what I was able to put together considering the limitations of gear I struggled with at the time, from camera to computer.

This year, for 12/12/12, I’ll have a better camera, more experience working with video, and I hope to focus more on film than on stills. Also, I hope to have more of a topic to focus on, rather than some vague thoughts about transportation, Veterans’ Day, early Christmas decorations, poverty, Occupation, and fall colors. I like the way those themes weave through the video, it feels like a nice little journey to me, but I’d like more of a specific topic this year.

I’ll probably only have a few days to prepare after NaNoWriMo for this, but it is a project I am looking forward to.

For Earth Day, a Film Created by the Whole World - NYTimes.com:

“One Day on Earth” is the culmination of a film and social-networking project started four years ago by Kyle Ruddick and Brandon Litman, two graduates of the University of Southern California. Mr. Ruddick has said he came up with the idea of documenting every corner of the world on a single day after attending a world music festival and watching various sonic styles mingle.

As Mr. Ruddick finished the feature-length movie, compiled from over 3,000 hours of video, in California, Mr. Litman worked from New York to secure financial and logistics support from charities and humanitarian organizations. Over 60 such partners signed on.

‘One Day on Earth’: Film with footage from every country on earth captured on same day makes its debut | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News:

The 105-minute film includes rare footage from places where American filmmakers aren't exactly welcome--including North Korea, where a military parade was secretly shot. "We had someone who basically shot covert with a DSLR camera that was rolling video," Ruddick told Yahoo News. "It was harrowing to watch--you never want someone to put themselves in danger, or get hurt."

Footage from South Sudan, North Africa and Tunisia--which in 2010 was on the brink of igniting the Arab spring--was just as difficult to obtain. The pair also partnered with more than 60 NGOs, including Oxfam and Human Rights Watch--"people who know the logistics on the ground," Litman said.

'One Day on Earth' documentary: Visit every country in the world this Earth Day | Inside Movies | EW.com:

If this all sounds familiar, last year’s Ridley Scott-produced documentary Life in a Day pulled off a similar feat by gathering video shot by YouTube users. But One Day on Earth, the brainchild of first-time filmmakers Kyle Ruddick (director) and Brandon Litman (executive producer), was initially set in motion four years ago. And unlike Life in a Day, which was backed by YouTube and Scott Free Productions and was distributed by National Geographic Films, Ruddick and Litman turned to nonprofit partners including the United Nations and World Wildlife Fund.

I’m a big fan of Life in a Day, but I see no reason why we can’t have two of these crowdsourcing “Earth in a single day” films. And if this Beirut-scored trailer is any indication, One Day on Earth seems to have the goods.

More press links here: http://www.onedayonearth.org/profiles/blog/list?user=2l415lotmh5cu

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