HEDEGREOW listed on IMDB

You know you are "official" when IMDB, the authoritative Internet Movie Data Base, lists your movie. We are now -- again -- with HEDGEROW. Visit the IMDB HEDGEROW site. Or visit the ON THE LAKE IMDB site.

HEDGEROW wins major grant!

Dave and I went to the Statehouse today for a press conference announcing the winners of the major 2010 grants from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. We received one to help with the post-production costs of BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society,, which will have its world premiere at the 2010 Rhode Island International Film festival. We graciously thank the Council for their continued support -- this is the second grant for HEDGEROW that they have awarded us, and these two grants follow one that helped push ON THE LAKE toward its completion in early 2009. Thanks also to George T. Marshall and Flickers Art Collaborative, which serves as our fiscal sponsor.

EPM IN THE NEWS AGAIN

A nice story about documentary filmmaking, with reference to Eagle Peak Media, ON THE LAKE, and BEHIND THE HEDGEROW appeared in the Dec. 13 issue of DocumentaryTech magazine. Check it out!

Production nearing its end...

We returned to 459 Bellevue yesterday to put Jerry Slocum on camera for BEHIND THE HEDGEROW. Jerry is Eileen's oldest child and only son -- and he was outstanding, filled with wonderful stories and insights about his mother that we had not heard.
We are nearly through production, with one or possibly two more shoots to go. And then we begin editing.
To learn more about the documentary, due to premiere at the 2010 Rhode Island International Film festival, visit the movie site.
-- Wayne

"namby pamby,' `idiot,' `coward'

Are among the words used to describe Claiborne Pell for his early, vocal and longstanding opposition to the Vietnam War. More at the Pell bio blog.
And more about A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR at the official book site.

Claiborne Pell bio

Making great progress, check out the blog

More Press; Newport in New York

Producer/writer G. Wayne Miller wrote a piece about narrative storytelling on the page and on the screen for DocumentaryTech, a web site devoted to "exploring the techniques and technology of documentary filmmaking," Sept. 25, 2009. BEHIND THE HEDGEROW was prominently included, along with a photograph of an on-location shoot of prominent Newporter Nick Brown.

The Providence Phoenix published a story about A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR, Miller's forthcoming biography of Claiborne Pell, in its issue of Sept. 24, 2009, and HEDGEROW was included.

The biography brought Miller over the past weekend to Fort Ticonderoga in New York, which has been in Pell family hands since 1820 -- a place dear to Claiborne's heart. Pictured here is Robert Pell-deChame, family genealogist, with one of the fort's canons -- donated, Robert told me, by John Slocum, Eileen's husband. Small world...