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awaken honduras [rough cut] from JJ Starr on Vimeo.
WINNER: GRAND PRIZE - REELSTORIES FILM FEST (Malibu, CA) WINNER: REEL CAUSE AWARD - REELSTORIES FILM FEST (Malibu, CA) OFFICIAL SELECTION: FALLBROOK FILM FEST (Fallbrook, CA) In June of 2008 a team from LA traveled to Honduras to capture the reality that children living there are faced with. We dealt mostly with kids living just outside of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. The kids featured are faced with working long hours in a trash dump collecting anything that they can find to make money. The conditions of the dump are very bad and kids are often injured and/or killed. This short documentary highlights a school that was created across the street from the dump in order to stop kids from working in it and receive an education. This is only a rough cut. Hopefully the final cut will be done by June 2010.
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OFFICIAL SELECTION: REELSTORIES FILM FEST (Malibu, CA)
6 people are being held hostage, and are told to "decide" themselves, which 3 will live and which 3 will die.
from the first treatment to the final scored version this was only a 2 and a half month process, that was not possible without everyone listed below. Thank you.
Screenplay: Omid Heidari
AD: Omid Heidari
Sound Engineer: Alec Eagon
Starring: Jack Peter Hawkins
Starring: Kousha Harirchian
Starring: Lino Ortiz
Starring: Brooke Lowry
Starring: Cole Gleason
Starring: Bethanie Russell
Camera 1: Aaron McManus
Camera 2: Charlie Balch
Camera 3: Morgan Funk
Camera 4: Tanner Joyce
Camera 5: Daniel Polk
Camera 6: Kyle Helf
Script Editor: Kirsten Vassie
Film Editor: Alec Eagon
Grip: Eric Yomantas
Script Supervisor: Sam Behymer
Lighting 1: Andrew Hagen
Lighting 2: Chad Behrens
Makeup: Lida Manukyan
Set Design: Blake Franks
Photographer: Alex Curry
Score: Recorded LIVE by members of the Pepperdine University Symphony Orchestra
Composer/Conductor: Tyler Kimmel
Catering: Meredith Ouzounian
Catering: Melissa Ouzounian
Catering: Kristen Voetmann
and thank you to the tons of other people who helped out in a thousand other ways. this was a crazy/sometimes very stressful process that was in no way possible without all of you. Thank you.
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beauty within the slum [a scene from africa] from JJ Starr on Vimeo.
so far on my many journeys through Uganda and Kenya my favorite part has been this short video. This kid lives in the Namuwangu Slum just outside of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. He's blind but is well known by all the people who work and live within in the slums as a "ray of sunshine". Upon meeting him he wanted to play his harmonica for us, and what follows is beautiful. Thanks to someone he will probably never meet he was able to receive money to attend a special needs school outside of the slum.26
31 | the sam behymer mix [raw footage] from JJ Starr on Vimeo.
raw footage from the sunrise project. the song is written and performed by a talented friend of my mine sam behymer. she just released her first album a couple months ago. look it up on i-tunes or amazon, you won't regret it. recorded and mixed by alec eagon25
[lo how a rose e'er blooming] from JJ Starr on Vimeo.
a short video that i shot and edited in an hour. i just figured that i would show the amazing snow that was falling around chicagoland. shot on a sony ex1, letus extreme, nikon lens