Beware crossing through the park tonight...

It's All Hallows Eve!

Wright Square
Savannah, GA.

Happy Halloween

Field Trip!

We are at Freewheel Farm in Atlanta's Grant Park area to shoot an episode of Field Trip!

In the meantime we just edited Daniel Parson talking about good bugs!

Check it out on the Georgia Organics Field Trip! Channel

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FYI: We are closing in on the end of this three year project and it has been an amazing journey.  
More about that and what's next soon.

Gooood mornin'

In the production office.
Fueling up!

Behind the scenes...

Focus mark, last looks, model chaos, on set madness... "Who's not ready!"

In PhotoShop...

and running the jobs through... 'nuff said?  OK.

On Dallas Ave

"Girl"
Nashville TN

Seeing - Three Images

Nashville, Tennessee - 10/22/2014
Long day of great shooting.
Styling by Anna Forkum.
These are stray shots looking the other way while waiting to get the next shot.

The 2014 AMP "Shoot It Before It Shoots Us Tour" Bring It!

Nashville At Dusk

ATL > JAX

ATL > JAX

Flying down to the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, for a screening of Terra Firma tonight.

If you're in the neighborhood come by and join us.

More intel: #WFD2014

On assignment...

Back in the ATL and on assignment with Liz Noftle the design director for Atlanta HOME magazine. We're shooting a gorgeous Mid-Century Modern for the relaunch of their Home magazine next Spring.

Obviously we can't show you what we are shooting- for that you'll have to wait for publication- but in the meantime- how 'bout a bowl of marbles!

Terra Firma on the radio...

Spinnaker Radio’s Holt Knight talks to documentary filmmaker Owen Masterson, whose project “Terra Firma” addresses the use of farming as therapy for veteran women.

The film screens at UNF on October 16, as part of the World Food Day events.

Listen NOW!

Highlands Farm

Granite City, Highlands, NC

Early morning

Whiteside Mt.





Outside Highlands, along and down steep, winding mountain roads at the base of Whiteside Mountain is a farmhouse whose gracious owners opened it up to us while we shot in the area.

Thanks to Anna Forkum for her beautiful styling and being so much fun to work with.

On the streets... a night shoot

The Atlanta Streetcar is having a test run tonight and we are covering it as part of the 'Where Atlanta' photo assignment. Safety meeting at 10PM- rolling at TBA on Auburn Ave between Jackson St. and Courtland St.

TBA turned out to be later than anyone expected... nuff said.

Looking west along Auburn Av

Looking east along Auburn Av






Thx to the APD. Very cool.
Thx Station 4, "THE SQUAD" and Capt. Chip at City of Atlanta Fire & Rescue

Words on a wall...

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jesse Hill Jr Dr NE & Auburn Av
Atlanta, GA

On the road...

.... and headed to Oxford, Georgia to film Daniel Parson for a very special episode of FIELD TRIP!

We first met Daniel in 2008 when we showed up at Gaia Gardens where he was farming and we were working on our first foray into filmmaking with a FlipUltra mini-camera. Oh- the look he gave us that morning.  Later, when we got to know each other better, he mentioned the little camera and how funny he thought we were.

That short documentary became FARM! and we have all since come a long way. True story.

A cool AirBnB in Nashville, TN

If you are into the AirBnB scene and need a cool place in Nashville, Tennessee, here's a sweet little set up with big extras that we think you'll dig.

In 12 South/Belmont area

airbnb link

Lexington, KY...

Save the light, strike the set, that's a wrap.

It's been a killer week of assignments: 4 days in Nashville and one very long day in Lexington, KY.
Hit the road early tomorrow for Atlanta then it's back in the saddle on Wednesday.

Lcxington, KY Sunset

Alcove

Designer: Anna Forkum
Nashville

On the road...

We will be out of the office on assignment(s) this week.
If you need to get in touch, please leave a message and we will get back to you.

On assignment...

Getting the shots...


In Reflection

On assignment: On the Atlanta Streetcar Line for "Atlanta - Where Guest Book"

Pevná zem!

TERRA FIRMA in Prague, Czech Republic
Life Sciences Film Festival
October 13-17 2014
International Festival of Documentary Films on Natural and
Agricultural Sciences and Sustainable Development.

More information

On assignment...

EXT.  DESERT -- DAY.

Somewhere in a heat scorched desert, where the road turns to dust, 
a car streaks by into a blazing white sun...

Well... we are really somewhere in Georgia tucked away in a beautiful home shooting for a wonderful magazine.

PA-WAgN Keynote

Christine Anthony tapped to deliver keynote address "From Locavore To Farmer Advocate: Shinning A Light On The Next Generation Of Women Farmers" at the Pennsylvania Women's Agricultural Network (PA-WAgN) Symposium: "Women Farmers: Heros In Our Communities."

There will also be a screening of TERRA FIRMA at this event.
Filmmakers will be attending.

Exterior

Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta

RIFFXI

There is no other way to begin this post than to say we are deeply honored.  

We are honored to have been given the chance to tell the stories of 3 amazing women: 
Anna Mann, Sonia Kendrick and Althea Raiford.

Thanks go to them for trusting us to present their stories honestly. Their courage to lay themselves bare, to share their experiences of what it was like being in war and coming home and finding themselves changed in ways they could not at first understand, was humbling for us.

Making TERRA FIRMA challenged us in many ways. We wanted to push our own documentary filmmaking skill set to the edge and then see how much further we could go beyond that. It was not always easy, but we came out on the other side intact and still together.  Knowing what these three women went through, what other veterans have gone through, what they are still going through, guided us through our darkest days- we could not allow ourselves to give up on our mission to get this project completed. And that is what kept us going. 

Thank you to the staff of the Rome International Film Festival for selecting the film, and to all those involved in giving TERRA FIRMA the Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature Film and presenting us with one of the best festival statues, The Sylvia.

The award is for a thoughtful film that raises awareness about an important issue from a sensitive vantage point.

TF at RIFFXI: QandA

At The DeSoto Theatre
for the Q&A after the screening.

Photo courtesy of  
Ryan Simmons/RIFF

All Roads Lead To ROME!

A brief history...

Our first film, the documentary short FARM! was an Official Selection at RIFF 2009.

Shot entirely on a Flip Ultra, (really), we were pretty blown away by how good it looked on the DeSoto Theatre screen.

And we got the film bug...

Encouraged, we acquired a better camera and got to work.

In 2011 we released the feature length
documentary GROW!.

GROW! was an official selection at RIFF 2011 and went on to win Best American Documentary.

Which brings us to this:

Our third documentary film to be accepted into the Rome International Film Festival.

We are honored to be an Official Selection at RIFF 2014 with TERRA FIRMA.



See you there.

Watch FARM! (Director's Cut)

FARM! imdb.com

growmovie.net

GROW! imdb

terrafirmafilm.com

TERRA FIRMA imdb

On location- TERRA FIRMA- Woodland CA

When we arrived at this location it was still dark. We shot the opening title sequence and later, as the sun rose, we got footage for the "Drive On" montage sequence.

CR 22 at CR 94B
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On location- TERRA FIRMA- Mt Airy NC

Stills from Mt Airy during first round of filming at Chestnut Ridge Farm.

There was an ominous, storm pending sky moving in fast...

08/20/2012

On location- TERRA FIRMA- Cedar Rapids IA

Early morning scouting shots in the corn fields northeast of Cedar Rapids during the filming of TERRA FIRMA.
The vastness of this region, with it's looming sky, it's forever vistas, makes one feel very small.

10/12/2012

On location- TERRA FIRMA- Brunswick GA

Still photography from Gilliard Farms, Brunswick, Georgia, during TERRA FIRMA filming.

Arriving early we wandered the property, the morning light trying to cut through the fog, and captured the quiet solitude with it's history hanging from the great trees and time peeling off the old house.
It is a magical place.

08/29/2012