A few quick updates as we speed through summer like a rocket. It’s almost August. That’s a lot to swallow. Our most recent documentary in the RealLab family, KEEPER OF THE MOUNTAINS was Kickstarted by dear friends and fans of Miss Hawley. Shooting begins in Colorado this week under the watchful eye of Director Allison [...]
Previously, I mentioned getting to work with the wonderful Allison Otto on a new project. We went live today with our Kickstarter campaign and you can read all about the good stuff that has us trekking to the Himalaya there. But, since it’s 2:18 am in Chicago and yours truly is fighting a late spring [...]
Full disclosure: Rebecca appears in our doc Soul Winners but we pushed those boundaries because we had to have her infinite and amazing film scholarship on board. Rebecca Hall is a familiar face in the film community (and we actually mean film) here in Chicago. Hall is a freelance projectionist and celluloid missionary. She [...]
Religion. Nature. Mountain Film. The three prongs of RealLab. I wanted to tell you about the other projects coming to the helm as we push onward with our cornerstone project Soul Winners. In November I had the opportunity to study at the Banff Centre in Canada complete with a student ID that said ARTIST in [...]
It has been a long, busy stretch at RealLab. In February Ford Seeuws joined our crew for a quick jaunt to Alabama to capture the Olive Brothers. You might recall their film Rock It’s Your Decision. The brothers, pictured above grew up with the family photography business. Their father captured images of the Space Center [...]
As a former graphic artist for several newspapers in Ye Old Age of Print I am very sensitive about fonts. New to me; typography in films for lower thirds, title pages and your marketing campaigns. Can you tell I’m a newbie? I am not even sure what you call all of it collectively. Being a [...]
Sherwood Pictures began as a small enterprise in a not-so-small church in Albany, Georgia. Two associate pastors at Sherwood Baptist Church brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick decided to start making their own films as an outreach tool. Their first film Flywheel had a budget of $20,000 and grossed $37,000 at the box office after premiering [...]
Photo: Jay Delaney Erin Kitzinger is a writer, director, producer and editor. (And is doing us a massive solid by working on an indie documentary for below her pay grade– so we love her.) She graduated in 2008 from the University of Central Florida’s School of Film & Digital Media, as one of the first six [...]
Unrelated but a quiet passion of mine is mountain film. I often joke that after spending so much time in the Blue Ridge on this project perhaps we’re on to something. But the true mountain film– the people in the lifestyle, “living the dream” was showcased at the Banff Center this week. Here’s a few [...]
Flood or fire, the first thing we try to protect in our home is the irreplaceable. On our return to trip to Nashville, post flood, Tim Ormond was kind enough to share personal photos from the Ormond family with a catch– they had been submerged in river water, in a plastic box. Luckily the box [...]
