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 [...]
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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 »
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 »
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
