After applying and sending proposals for many grants our upcoming documentary finally received some funding! This is certainly the best news of the year (so far.)
The Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas is awarding us with an awesome grant to help us with our production. This grant is offered to projects working with a diverse range of genres. Studying and producing a project linking various topics together is a direction I am super excited to follow and look forward to seeing where this will lead me as a photographer and documentary storyteller. Our project is a great fit as we will be utilizing both video and still photography, in addition to creating an interactive web experience. More importantly though, this project was chosen because it combines traditional journalism and documentary to present a multitude of issues including environmentalism, health, social conflict and ethics.
While this grant is certainly a huge help…we are still in need of funding. Campania In-Felix is currently affiliated with the International Documentary Association, a non-profit organization which holds 501 (c) (3) status.
If you are able to donate $5, $10, or $100 please visit the IDA website where you can find our featured film. Any help is awesome.
Below is another posting of our trailer which was filmed last summer. To find more information on this project, please visit the Campania In-Felix (Unhappy Country) website.
Texas had its gubernatorial primary elections a couple weeks back. It was just the primaries, but this is Texas, and we all know no Democrat has even a chance of running this state. The Republican ticket sure got heated though as Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison sparred in a heated campaign. There was also Debra Medina making some noise, but she never really had chance.
I had two assignments in a week to cover Kay Bailey during the end of her campaign. She started strong and looked good in the polls until the last few weeks when she simply fell behind. She was pleasant enough as she shifted through the smiles and handshakes of a seasoned politician. Yet, you could see there was no drive left in her campaign. The tour bus made all the usual stops around the DFW area, resting at all-American cafes, retirement homes, and town-hall style Republican meetings. The other media and I only had access to one leg of the drive between locations, but that was more than enough time to catch Kay Bailey dividing her gifted cupcakes amongst her team.
I also shot the Kay Bailey watch party. Everyone pretty much knew she was going to loose, but the media attention was spectacular considering it was only the primary election. I must say, I am surprised the New York Times found such interest in state politics.The watch party was at Eddie Deen’s Ranch near downtown Dallas. It was very fitting for Texas…the walls are lined with western themed store fronts and the place has obviously hosted a line dance or three.
I do like politics.
***I would like to point out that I was mistakenly given credit for Ben Sklar’s photo of Governor Rick Perry in the sweet clip that ran on the front of the National section. I did take the other two.
I went to New York in early February for another round of meetings. The meetings were great and it was awesome to see a lot of people once again. It also snowed A LOT. It was beautiful to see the city blanketed in snow…although it did make for delays, canceled meetings and sloppy travel. I mostly left the digital at home and used the iPhone instead.
It was a perfect excuse to make a couple more iPhone montages.
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