Seeing is Believing

Just finished the edit for a "behind the scenes" film we shot at the end of last year for The Aurora Orchestra.

Aurora commissioned Composer Nico Muhly to write an original piece for them and Nico came up with an extraordinary piece of music using an electric violin. Not being a massive classical music buff myself, I'm not necessarily qualified to pass judgement - all I know is, when we were filming the performance, it sent shivers down my spine...

Down to the well...

We spent the whole day on Saturday filming the induction day for the 2010 recruits for the Green & Black's Community Development Programme.  We'll be traveling with Raleigh, who are running the project, to the Dominican Republic in a few weeks time to document the project, a gravity well, built in the farming community of CONACADO, the cocoa co-operative that G&B's work with.

The Lucky winners above are (l-r) Jesting Jamie, Orange Olly, Enthusiastic Elizabeth, Modest Max & Brilliant Bruno.

Jim & I have actually been to visit CONACADO in the DR before with Cafédirect a couple of years ago, had a great trip, there is a funny video of Jim practicing Spanish somewhere...  Perhaps we'll hook up again with our friend Abel, who was our escort last time and a founder of the Co-operative.  A very respected man.

A still from the new trailer of Little Deaths, Sean's next film, which is premiering at this year's South By Southwest.

Look closely and you'll see my two esteemed colleagues looking slightly worse for wear... well, looking like they're dealing with regular Sunday morning hangovers ;-)

'An important message about the arts' - an animated video by artist Davi...

John Barry RIP

Really sorry to hear that John Barry has died. He was responsible for some of the most iconic and in my opinion, best film soundtracks in the history of cinema. My personal favourite is the main theme from the much underrated Lazenby Bond film O.H.M.S.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OCxwZI7YA

Genius.

Who Dat?

Just found this short animation we put together for the Super Bowl last year. It was shown on TV in the U.S. to raise funds and help re-build New Orleans after Katrina. Bit of a rush-job, so no time to cut a professional VO in. How good is Nick's accent though!

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London: Taken by Storm!

Hey, just noticed that our 'Team Primal' (A.K.A. 'Storm'), free-running films have had thousands of hits on Youtube. Have a butchers for yourself and let us know what you think.

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