Today we will be bombarded once again with the horrific images of the earthquake that Haiti sustained one year ago. Many people will do this in hopes of drawing an emotional response and/or money out of us. By the end of the day, many of us will return to our lives, to a home cooked [...]
Jan 12, 2011 | Categories: Updates | Tags: 100 Shows for Haiti, a la source, Best documentary 2011, brandon vedder, brothers, clean, clean water, crisis, documentary, donation, editing marathon, featured, film, film donation, filmmakers blog, generosity water, Greg Bennick, haiti, Haiti anniversary, haiti documentary, Haiti earthquake, haiti film, haitian, humanitarian, independent film blog, jess koehler, jordan wagner, josue, la source, The Philosopher Kings, Transcendental Media, water crisis | Leave A Comment »
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 is the first anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. There is still a lot of work to be done. 100ShowsforHaiti.com is organizing 100 shows between Jan. 7-16, 2011, where all proceeds will go towards direct humanitarian aid to Haiti. “La Source” is in post-production, but [...]
Jan 11, 2011 | Categories: Updates | Tags: 100 Shows for Haiti, a la source, Best documentary 2011, clean, clean water, crisis, documentary, featured, film, filmmakers blog, generosity water, Greg Bennick, haiti, haiti documentary, Haiti earthquake anniversay, Haiti events, haiti film, haitian, humanitarian, independent film blog, patrick shen, The Philosopher Kings, Transcendental Media, water crisis | Leave A Comment »
Here you go, people. Day three of my 60 hour editing marathon is now up. Just in case you haven’t seen the Day 1 or Day 2 videos, I spent 60 hours over four days, editing “La Source,” to help push it along in the editing process. I shot some short videos on my iPhone [...]
Jan 03, 2011 | Categories: Updates | Tags: a la source, Best documentary 2011, brandon vedder, brothers, clean, clean water, crisis, custodian, documentary, editing marathon, featured, filmmakers blog, generosity water, haiti, haiti documentary, haiti film, haitian, humanitarian, independent film blog, independent film directing blog, janitor, jess koehler, jordan wagner, josue, josue lajeunesse, la source, Operation Blessing, patrick shen, Transcendental Media, water, water crisis | Leave A Comment »
Here you go, people. Day 2 of my 60 hour editing marathon is now online. Just in case you haven’t seen Day 1, I spent 60 hours over four days, editing “La Source” to push the documentary towards the finish line for the extended deadline the Sundance Film Festival gave us (Thanks Sundance!). I shot [...]
Nov 11, 2010 | Categories: Updates | Tags: a la source, Best documentary 2011, brandon vedder, brothers, clean, clean water, crisis, custodian, documentary, documentary blog, editing marathon, featured, film, filmmakers blog, generosity water, haiti, haiti documentary, haitian, humanitarian, independent film blog, independent film directing blog, janitor, josue lajeunesse, la source, patrick shen, water, water crisis | Leave A Comment »
The La Source trailer has been nominated for MY HERO International Film Festival’s Daniel Eldon Activist Award. The award is in honor of humanitarian and journalist Daniel Eldon. Eldon was one of the few westerners reporting on the crisis in Somolia in 1993. He was killed in 1993 by an angry mob in the nation’s [...]
Oct 26, 2010 | Categories: Updates | Tags: a la source, Best documentary 2011, brandon vedder, brothers, clean, crisis, custodian, Daniel Eldon, documentary, featured, filmmakers blog, generosity water, haiti, haiti documentary, Haiti palace, haitian, Haitian palace, Hero Award, humanitarian, janitor, jess koehler, jordan wagner, josue, josue lajeunesse, la source, My Hero, My Hero International Film Festival, My Hero project, National Palace, patrick shen, Port-au-Prince, The Philosopher Kings, water, water crisis | Leave A Comment »
David Darg, who is featured in the La Source documentary and is also the Director of International Disaster Relief and Special Projects for Operation Blessing International, described first-hand what he is seeing in Haiti as it has been announced that there is a cholera outbreak. In his eyewitness account featured on BBC News (Oct. 21, [...]
Oct 22, 2010 | Categories: Updates | Tags: a la source, BBC News, Best documentary 2011, Cholera Outbreak, Cholera Outbreak in Haiti, David Darg, documentary, filmmakers blog, generosity water, haiti, haiti documentary, humanitarian, humanitarian work in Haiti, Independent Directing Film Blog, la source, MSNBC, Operation Blessing, patrick shen, Reuters, Source movie, The Source, water, water crisis, With My Own Eyes | Comments Off
In La Source, water does not come easily. For the past two hundred years, villagers of this remote Haitian village have had to choose either to endure a dangerous and physically taxing walk to fetch clean water or drink contaminated water from a nearby river. For over 30 years the people in the village have [...]
Mar 15, 2010 | Categories: About | Tags: crisis, custodian, documentary, haiti, humanitarian, janitor, josue, la source, philosopher kings, water | Comments Off
