Winter 2008
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| Alpheus Media Wins Three Communicator Awards Spring 2008 |
| We're very excited that three Alpheus Media films received a Communicator Award. 'Unite', and 'Manifesto', produced for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and 'Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars', produced for the Redford Center at the Sundance Preserve, claimed the Award of Excellence, their highest honor. The 14th Annual Communicator Awards is being overseen and sanctioned by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. Read the full list here . |
| World Tour Blog Spring 2008 |
| We've launched a blog to document our current documentary project. Read about it here . |
| Fighting Goliath Site Launches Winter 2008 |
| "Fighting Goliath , a documentary short film produced by the Redford Center at the Sundance Preserve and Alpheus Media will screen in Houston courtesy of the Progressive Forum this weekend, on Thursday March 27th with Robert Redford in attendance. Also the film will be screened at AFI Dallas on Saturday March 29, at 4:30pm. |
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| 'Fighting Goliath' Screenings Winter 2008 |
| 'Fighting Goliath', a documentary short film narrated by Robert Redford and written and directed by Mat Hames and George Sledge, and produced by Alpheus Media in a collaboration with the Redford Center at the Sundance Preserve, will screen in Waco at the Hippodrome on January 10th, and on January 11th in Dallas at the Angelika Theatre. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Doors open at 6:30pm. The program for both film events includes a screening of the 30 minute film followed by a moderated panel discussion, comprised of local policymakers, business leaders, ranchers, and lawyers, many of whom appear in the film. The panels will be moderated by Texas journalists. |
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| "State of Tomorrow" Wins Two Lone Star EMMY® Awards Autumn 2007 |
| "State of Tomorrow", the PBS documentary series we coproduced with the University of Texas Foundation, has won two Lone Star EMMY® Awards. The 13 episode series, which has been airing across all 13 PBS stations in Texas, explored the role of higher education in solving society's problems.
The series picked up awards in the categories:
• Public/Current/Community Affairs-Program/Special: "Disaster Response" Disaster Response highlights the little-known contributions of higher education in saving lives during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina - and its comprehensive planning for natural and intentional disasters in the future. In this program, Katrina survivors and rescuers speak about their hazardous experiences. Responders train for potential catastrophes and mass casualties at a site called Disaster City. From a Cold-War bunker beneath the city of Austin, the state's head of emergency management talks about his job description "to protect Texas from threats, natural or man-made." Using satellite images, experts guide rescue efforts, predict storm movements, and help evacuate endangered areas. A small East Texas city provides refuge for tens of thousands fleeing big cities along the Texas coast. Disaster Response tells the vivid stories and hard-won knowledge from past disasters and higher education's collaborative efforts to limit damage and save more lives in the future. • Graphic Arts - Animation, for the show opening animation for each episode of "State of Tomorrow". |
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| Fighting Goliath Autumn 2007 |
| Alpheus has written and directed a film for Robert Redford's Sundance Preserve. The short documentary, 'Fighting Goliath', explores the controversy over 18 proposed coal-fired power plants in Texas. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Summit, hosted by Robert Redford, Mayor Rocky Anderson, ICLEI and The Sundance Preserve. A feature length version of the film is in the works. |
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| Alpheus Media Scores Five Emmy Nominations for PBS Series Summer 2007 |
| The PBS series we co-produced with the University of Texas System, "State of Tomorrow" has been nominated for five Lone Star Chapter Emmy awards! State of Tomorrow is a 13-part PBS documentary series that tells unique human stories about challenges facing society, and solutions pioneered in academic environments. Explore the website here . Our partner and presenting station for the series, Austin PBS affiliate KLRU-TV, scored huge with 21 Emmy nominations total! For more information, here's a list posted to Austinist. Our awards plus all the others nominated for this year's Emmy's are listed here. |
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| It's Flu Season! Summer 2007 |
| We helped our friends at Austin-based agency EnviroMedia craft several TV Spots to mark the occasion. |
| Busy, Busy... Summer 2007 |
| We've been quietly working this summer on new film projects for the Sundance Preserve, the Center for American History, Healthy Child Healthy World, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Enviromedia, and many others. It's hard to update the site when we're all so slammed. So, look for updates and quicktime movies soon. Now back to work! |
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| USS Lexington Screening Summer 2007 |
| On Friday, August 24, the Center for American History will host a reception and screening of Last Best Hope for 200 invited guests aboard the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, Texas. The film recently received the Silver Hugo Award for Television Excellence in the documentary category as well as the Audience Choice Award and Best Feature-Length Documentary Award at the Mendocino Film Festival. |
| Awards at Mendocino Film Fest Spring 2007 |
| This just in - our documentary "Last Best Hope" has won Best Feature Documentary AND the Audience Choice award at the Mendocino Film Festival! Our awards plus all the others are listed here. |
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| State of Tomorrow Airing on PBS Spring 2007 |
| Read about the PBS documentary series which we co-produced with the University of Texas Foundation, in partnership with KLRU, in the Austin Business Journal. . Currently, the series is airing on PBS stations across the state of Texas. You can find your local listing, descriptions of each segment, and quicktime promos at the website. . |
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| Lance Armstrong Foundation - LIVESTRONG Challenge Commercials Spring 2007 |
| We've just wrapped up Directing and Producing 6 commercials for our friends at the Lance Armstrong Foundation to promote the LIVESTRONG Challenge . The spots will air in Philadelphia, Portland, and Austin. The LIVESTRONG Challenge is a great way to raise funds to fight cancer. To watch the Philadelphia spot, click on the image thumbnails above. |
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| 2007 Silver Hugo Award Spring 2007 |
| Our documentary "Last Best Hope" has won the 2007 Silver Hugo Television Award in the Documentary/History category at the 43rd annual Hugo Awards for Excellence in Television ceremony in Chicago. As a point of reference, last year the same category awarded Silver Hugos to ‘No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,’ produced by WNET-TV in New York and ‘American Experience: Fidel Castro,’ produced by WGBH-TV in Boston. The full list of 2007 winners is here. |
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| "Last Best Hope" 2007 Mendocino Film Festival Selection Spring 2007 |
| "Last Best Hope",our feature documentary on the Belgian Resistance, will appear as an official selection of the Mendocino Film Festival, May 17th-20th. We've heard great things about this festival; this year Albert Maysles will be in attendence. Hope to see some of you out there. |
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| State of Tomorrow Winter 2007 |
| We are very proud to announce the debut of a new 13-episode PBS series, entitled "State of Tomorrow". Co-produced with the University of Texas Foundation, and sponsored by Exxon-Mobil, AT&T, IBC Bank, and others, "State of Tomorrow" is a documentary series exploring the innovations in medicine, science, the arts, technology, and heath being pioneered in academic environments. Each episode delves into these complex subjects through human stories. We filmed for 73 days all over Texas, and interviewed more than 150 people at Texas A&M, University of Texas, Texas State, Texas Tech, University of Houston, and the University of North Texas. Check your local PBS listings for airtimes. |
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| Lance Armstrong Foundation Manifesto Autumn 2006 |
| You can view our Manifesto film for the Lance Armstrong Foundation on Youtube here. Be sure to add comments! You can also watch a higher resolution version of the Manifesto by clicking the images above. |
Thanks to Sigur Rós for their generous donation of the track "Glósóli." |
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| "Last Best Hope" PBS Broadcast Autumn 2006 |
| Our documentary, "Last Best Hope", began airing nationally on October 30th, on PBS stations across the United States. Keep watching your PBS station as in many places, it will not air until next year. Many stations, we've heard, are also repeating it. |
| "Last Best Hope" Film Festival Accolades Summer 2006 |
| "Last Best Hope" played several film festivals recently, including the Calgary International Film Festival, the Dallas Film and Video Festival, Jackson Hole Film Festival, Worldfest, and the San Diego Cinema Society. The film also played in Washington D.C. at the Naval Heritage Museum's theater, with many VIPs in attendence. Next up: PBS airing. |
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| Wideawake Music Video Summer 2006 |
| Watch our music video for Wideawake's "Maybe Tonight, Maybe Tomorrow". here . |
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| It's Been a Long, Long Time... Hasn't It? Spring 2006 |
| We've been insanely busy in the last year, which leaves little time for updating the site. Where to begin? Last Best Hope will play at the Jackson Hole Film Festival in competition, won the gold Remi at Worldfest , and will air in primetime on PBS stations around the country on October 30th, 2006. Sigur Ros has agreed to allow us to use their song "Glossoli" in a new film commissioned by the Lance Armstrong Foundation. We won four Telly Awards. We've completed new projects for the University of Texas' School of Fine Arts, AMD, and many other projects are in progress. And, we have a very big announcement coming later this summer. Watch this space! |
| "Last Best Hope" Screens In Brussels, Belgium Autumn 2005 |
| A 97 minute rough cut of "Last Best Hope" had a special screening for members of the Belgian Royal Family, and Ambassadors and officials from 5 countries, in Brussels. In attendence were crown Prince Phillipe, U.S. Ambassador Korologos, and many others. Surviving members of the Belgian Resistance recieved recognition from the Kingdom of Belgium's Army and diplomatic community. It was an incredible evening. |
| Last Best Hope Website Launches Autumn 2005 |
| Alpheus, and Rendez-Vous Films have been filming, writing, and directing a documentary about the Belgian Resistance in World War II. The new title of the film is "Last Best Hope", and we've launched the new web site for the film. The first screening of a 97 minute"work in progress" version will take place on October 22nd in Brussels, Belgium, with screenings across the United States to follow, and eventually, broadcast on PBS. Thanks to everyone for your support and encouragement. |
| Lance and Sheryl Crow Say "Thanks" With Free Concert Autumn 2005 |
| Sheryl Crow played played a free concert at Auditorium Shores, to an audience of approximately 10,000 Austinites, and for the occasion, Alpheus created a 12 minute film about Lance Armstrong, summarizing his seven Tour De France victories after being diagnosed with cancer. |
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| "Last Best Hope" Advance Screening In Brussels Spring 2005 |
| Our documentary (working title: "Rendezvous With Freedom") about an American pilot's adventures with the Belgium Underground during WW2 will have an advance screening at the Royal Army and Military History Museum in Brussels, Belgium, on October 22nd 2005. Dedee de Jongh, founder of the Comete Line, will be in attendence, as will many other surviving Belgian Resistance fighters. Screenings will follow in Ghent, Belgium, as well as New York, and Austin. Watch this space for more details. |
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| "Share Your Story" Coming to a Movie Theater Near You Spring 2005 |
| The "Share Your Story" promotional film we created for the Lance Armstrong Foundation will be playing in movie theaters nationwide before the movie trailers. Also, look for it on TIVO sometime in July. Because we know how much you love watching commercials on TIVO and in movie theaters. |
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| Survivorship Stories Continue Spring 2005 |
| We're very lucky that we've been able to continue documenting the cancer survivorship experience. Watch some of them here Over the past years, we've interviewed over 200 cancer survivors thanks to our friends at the Lance Armstrong Foundation. |
| "Transforming Medicine" Film Debuts Spring 2005 |
| Alpheus made a film for Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, which will debut next month. |
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| "Making More" Is Finished! Summer 2004 |
| Mat finished up his epic "making of" documentary for the "More" Special
Edition DVD. Watch the film "More" here. Also, check out Mark's earlier student film, "Greener" and the making-of featurette, Birth of Greener. Both DVDs are also available at the Despair, Inc. website. |