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
Thursday, August 6, 2009
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.
Friday, December 5, 2008
ANOTHE PRE-RELEASE HONOR
With ON THE LAKE already accepted as an educational partner in the Geneva, Switzerland-based Stop TB Partnership, the world's leading fight-TB advocacy group, we have just been accepted as a partner with the United States advocacy group Stop TB USA. We thank the American group for bringing us on board.
Both the international and U.S. organizations are devoted to eliminating TB through treatment and research, and the public education and awareness required to support the End TB effort. Their recognition of us is in appreciation of the outreach/education role the film will play, beginning in February.
-- Wayne
Both the international and U.S. organizations are devoted to eliminating TB through treatment and research, and the public education and awareness required to support the End TB effort. Their recognition of us is in appreciation of the outreach/education role the film will play, beginning in February.
-- Wayne
EMOTIONAL FINAL TEST SCREENING
Following successful test screenings in October in Pittsburgh and last month at Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., we showed the movie Wednesday, Dec. 3, for the last time before the Feb. 13 world premiere at the place where it all began: Zambarano Hospital in Pascoag, R.I. We went into production a year ago at this distant place on Wallum Lake, and we have been many places since then as the movie grew from a look at a Rhode Island institution to include a national and global look at tuberculosis today. More than 100 staff, patients and former patients came this afternoon to the auditorium -- the very same place that appears in the film several times, albeit in historical context of a half century and more ago.
We thanked everyone for their extraordinary cooperation in helping bring this together, and we recognized several former patients and residents who are in the movie -- and who made the trip to Wallum Lake today. And that list includes Emily Martineau and Sheila O'Brien, both of Harrisville, R.I., and the four people pictured in the photo below, none of whom had seen each other in years, left to right: John Lynes, of Pascoag; Drew Greene, of North Carolina; Barbara Parkos, of Newport; and Russ Denham, who summers in the Ocean State winters in Florida. There were tears and memories galore... we have touched many lives as we've been blessed by so many stories shared and now preserved forever...
And our special guest was the extraordinary Frank Beazley, who has been a patient at Zam for almost 42 years. With a round of applause and profound appreciation for this incredible man, we wished Frank an early 80th birthday (it's on Dec. 13)! That's Frank, in the photo below, wearing his Christmas hat:
Thanks, folks, and happy holidays!
-- Wayne
We thanked everyone for their extraordinary cooperation in helping bring this together, and we recognized several former patients and residents who are in the movie -- and who made the trip to Wallum Lake today. And that list includes Emily Martineau and Sheila O'Brien, both of Harrisville, R.I., and the four people pictured in the photo below, none of whom had seen each other in years, left to right: John Lynes, of Pascoag; Drew Greene, of North Carolina; Barbara Parkos, of Newport; and Russ Denham, who summers in the Ocean State winters in Florida. There were tears and memories galore... we have touched many lives as we've been blessed by so many stories shared and now preserved forever...
And our special guest was the extraordinary Frank Beazley, who has been a patient at Zam for almost 42 years. With a round of applause and profound appreciation for this incredible man, we wished Frank an early 80th birthday (it's on Dec. 13)! That's Frank, in the photo below, wearing his Christmas hat:
Thanks, folks, and happy holidays!
-- Wayne
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