CROSS POSTED FROM FOREIGNPUZZLE.COM Dear God, Save Me! This is much harder than I thought. Today, Jan 2nd 2012, we filmed Sharon Marroquin learning to climb, glide and suspend using a silky sash, under the tutelage of super talented Nicole at theBlue Lapis Light Studio. After a few warm up exercises, Nicole guided Sharon through [...]
Scientist Victor DeNoble was tasked in the 1980s by a major tobacco company to invent a safer form of nicotine – one that would decrease its harmful effects but will still be addictive (i.e. smokers can live longer and smoke way more cigarettes – a win win situation). Guess what – DeNoble succeeded in doing [...]
THE POWER OF TWO is the inspirational tale of twins who refuse to let a disabling and life-shortening illness get in the way of their quest for a better life. Isabel “Isa” Stenzel and Anabel “Ana” Stenzel are biracial twin sisters both born with cystic fibrosis and gifted with “gaman” – the japanese word for perseverance, [...]
It has been a busy and productive summer for Foreign Puzzle. We filmed a lot, applied to a few grants, reached out to organizations/individuals to build partnerships, launched a website - http://foreignpuzzle.com/ and got on twitter -@foreignpuzzle Jorge Faz and I edited a 10 minute sample reel early this summer. Initially, the sample reel was used to [...]
Today July 18th 2011, Nelson Mandela, a symbol of the human struggle for equality turns 93. Today Mandela is a very old and frail man. As Mr Mandela fades from view, the ideas that he stood for remain glued and do spring different movements and development in South Africa. A week from today “Dear Mandela” a [...]
VERDICT ON AUSCHWITZ (2007) A 3-part German documentary about “The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965″ often described as one of the best German films on the Holocaust, is a commentary on Germany’s attempts to come to terms with its past. Using mainly archival footage, visuals of empty trial rooms juxtaposed with sickening audio transcripts of camp [...]
Love Etc, Project Nim, ‘Beats, rhythm and life. The travels of a tribe called Quest’, ‘Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the darkness’, Tabloid, El Bulli – cooking in progress, ”Life in a Day” and the mind blogging “Interrupters”. Not bad right 8 documentary films will play in a few cities on the big screen. I would [...]
15 years of research, two years of equipment design and 3 years of production resulted in the creation of the visually gorgeous 76 minute documentary “Microcosmos.’ The film reveals an awesome world that is so dazzlingly breathtaking and colourful, that it is hard to imagine it is real. The film is delightfully edited and is [...]
No border incursions ever occur at this or other northern Russian posts except occasional animal invaders. SYNOPSIS: This is an absurdist look at Russian border guards on the frontier of northern Russia in one of the few remaining outposts on the Arctic Ocean.Young recruit Alexei gets flown in and is oriented to the ritualized ways [...]
Today June 23rd 2011, New York joined Conneticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hamsphire, Vermont and the District of Columbia in legalizing same sex marriage. I was reminded of a powerful short documentary “FREE HELD” that went on to win the Academy award for best short documentary. The documentary film “Freeheld” chronicles Laurel’s struggle to transfer her [...]
