Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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
Monday, November 16, 2009
"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.
And more about A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR at the official book site.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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...
Saturday, September 19, 2009
A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR
Pell was a railroad buff -- and a visionary of high-speed passenger-rail service in the United States, which after the Second World War developed an interstate highway system but allowed passenger rail to suffer. In this clip from the projo, spring of 1962, Pell gets a favorable reaction to his plan for high-speed rail, run by a public entity, to serve the Northeast corridor. Yes, this is the root of today's Acela Amtrak service. Note the map!
For more on the Pell Biography, visit A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Claiborne Pell Biography
With 36 years in the U.S. Senate and a long list of legislative accomplishments that included the Pell Grant program, the late Claiborne Pell had few equals. But he was much more than that -- a quirky and colorful man born into great wealth who spent most of his life in service to the people, a true example of noblesse oblige. A VERY DIFFERENT SENATOR (working title), by G. Wayne Miller with the cooperation of the Pell family, is the first and only book about his life. Due in 2010.
For details, visit the book site.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
NEWPORT MOVIE AFTERNOON
Thursday, Aug. 13, 4 p.m., please join as at the Redwood Library, 50 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, R.I., for a showing of ON THE LAKE and the teaser-trailer to BEHIND THE HEDGEROW. Discussion with the filmmakers and members of Newport society and wine and cheese included. Details at the Redwood Library site.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
NO SHATNER, BUT SHOW GOES ON
As has been reported widely this week, William Shatner at the last minute -- literally, the last minute -- canceled plans to come to Rhode Island for an appearance during an evening that includes a showing of ON THE LAKE and the teaser-trailer to BEHIND THE HEDGEROW. We were as disappointed as the folks at The Rhode Island International Film Festival, which handled the discussions with Shatner's people.
BUT the show will go on -- both OTL and the BTH trailer will be shown tonight starting with a discussion with Dave and me at 6:45 p.m. at the Columbus Theatre in Providence. Hope to see you there!
-- Wayne
BUT the show will go on -- both OTL and the BTH trailer will be shown tonight starting with a discussion with Dave and me at 6:45 p.m. at the Columbus Theatre in Providence. Hope to see you there!
-- Wayne
Thursday, July 9, 2009
ANOTHER GRANT for HEDGEROW!
We learned this week that the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts has awarded us a production grant for BEHIND THE HEDGEROW. Few documentaries get support from RISCA, so this is a vote of confidence in the artistic merit of the movie. Thanks, RISCA!
Our first grant was awarded in April by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
-- Wayne
Our first grant was awarded in April by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
-- Wayne
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
NEW ON THE LAKE WEB SITE!
Today, we went live with an exciting new design of our ON THE LAKE movie web site, designed by our friend James Nicholas at www.easywebcreations.com Be sure to check it out.
Friday, April 24, 2009
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER!
Follow us on Twitter! as we make BEHIND THE HEDGEROW, about the secret world of old-money Newport, Rhode Island, home of the Gilded Age.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
OTL PRESS NIGHT SCHEDULED
January 29, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Filmmakers David Bettencourt and G. Wayne Miller invite you to a press screening of ON THE LAKE: Life and Love in a Distant Place, a feature-length documentary movie about the tuberculosis epidemic in America in the 1900s and globally today that will be nationally broadcast on PBS.
The press night will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street, Providence, R.I. Bettencourt, Miller and members of the cast and crew will be on hand to answer questions.
ON THE LAKE will have its world premiere on Feb. 13 at the Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, R.I., and will be broadcast on Rhode Island PBS (WSBE-channel 36) at 8 p.m. on March 25 (and other dates). The film has just been accepted for national distribution by NETA (National Educational Telecommunications Association).
ON THE LAKE had three successful test screenings last fall: in Pittsburgh, at Harvard College, and at state-run Zambarano Hospital in Pascoag, R.I., where much of the film is set. Zambarano opened in 1905 as a tuberculosis sanatorium.
Production of ON THE LAKE began in late 2007 at Zambarano, and later took filmmakers to Colorado, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Maryland and New York. The final version has images and reports from overseas. Globally, tuberculosis is the number-two infectious disease killer, after HIV/AIDS.
Even before its release, ON THE LAKE has garnered honors. The film is a member of the Geneva, Switzerland-based worldwide Stop TB Partnership (www.stoptb.org), run by an executive committee that includes members of the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The film had also been endorsed by the globe’s most prominent fight-TB advocate, Harvard’s Dr. Paul Farmer, subject of Pulitzer prize-winning author Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains. Farmer said:
“Tuberculosis -- one of humankind's oldest documented illnesses -- has been placed, by some, in the category of 'emerging infectious diseases.' The truth is, TB has never gone away. It has been and remains one of the world's leading infectious killers… I applaud the efforts of Eagle Peak Media and their film 'On The Lake' to tell the human story of the tuberculosis epidemic.”
ON THE LAKE is the first production from Eagle Peak Media, a multi-media company founded in May by Bettencourt, the award-winning director of YOU MUST BE THIS TALL: The Story of Rocky Point Park, and Miller, Providence Journal staff writer and author of seven books. More Eagle Peak documentaries are in pre-production.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Filmmakers David Bettencourt and G. Wayne Miller invite you to a press screening of ON THE LAKE: Life and Love in a Distant Place, a feature-length documentary movie about the tuberculosis epidemic in America in the 1900s and globally today that will be nationally broadcast on PBS.
The press night will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street, Providence, R.I. Bettencourt, Miller and members of the cast and crew will be on hand to answer questions.
ON THE LAKE will have its world premiere on Feb. 13 at the Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, R.I., and will be broadcast on Rhode Island PBS (WSBE-channel 36) at 8 p.m. on March 25 (and other dates). The film has just been accepted for national distribution by NETA (National Educational Telecommunications Association).
ON THE LAKE had three successful test screenings last fall: in Pittsburgh, at Harvard College, and at state-run Zambarano Hospital in Pascoag, R.I., where much of the film is set. Zambarano opened in 1905 as a tuberculosis sanatorium.
Production of ON THE LAKE began in late 2007 at Zambarano, and later took filmmakers to Colorado, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Maryland and New York. The final version has images and reports from overseas. Globally, tuberculosis is the number-two infectious disease killer, after HIV/AIDS.
Even before its release, ON THE LAKE has garnered honors. The film is a member of the Geneva, Switzerland-based worldwide Stop TB Partnership (www.stoptb.org), run by an executive committee that includes members of the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The film had also been endorsed by the globe’s most prominent fight-TB advocate, Harvard’s Dr. Paul Farmer, subject of Pulitzer prize-winning author Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains. Farmer said:
“Tuberculosis -- one of humankind's oldest documented illnesses -- has been placed, by some, in the category of 'emerging infectious diseases.' The truth is, TB has never gone away. It has been and remains one of the world's leading infectious killers… I applaud the efforts of Eagle Peak Media and their film 'On The Lake' to tell the human story of the tuberculosis epidemic.”
ON THE LAKE is the first production from Eagle Peak Media, a multi-media company founded in May by Bettencourt, the award-winning director of YOU MUST BE THIS TALL: The Story of Rocky Point Park, and Miller, Providence Journal staff writer and author of seven books. More Eagle Peak documentaries are in pre-production.
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