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Sep 10, 2011 | Categories: Updates | Tags: brandon vedder, crisis, documentary, film, fundraising, generosity water, haiti, indiegogo, jordan wagner, la source, launch, patrick shen, water | 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 »
Generosity Water, a partner in our documentary “La Source,” is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization dedicated to building wells in developing countries to bring clean water to those in need, and raising awareness of the global water crisis. In two years, they have raised over $1 million and funded over 130 water projects in 16 [...]
Oct 26, 2010 | Categories: Updates | Tags: clean water, documentary, fundraising, generosity water, jordan wagner, la source, 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
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 some short videos on my iPhone each day to give you all a glimpse of what those 60 hrs. looked like. One of [...]
Oct 20, 2010 | Categories: Updates | Tags: a la source, access to clean water, Best documentary 2011, director's blog, documentary, dude, earthquake, editing marathon, film, filmmakers blog, flight from death, generosity water, haiti, haiti documentary, independent, indie, indie documentary, indie film, indie film director, La Source documentary, La Source movie, movie, one year anniversary Haiti, Operation Blessing, patrick shen, race to sundance, sundance, sundance film festival, The Philosopher Kings, Transcendental Media, video log, water, water crisis | Leave A Comment »
Our trailer has been chosen to be one of the featured trailers on Hulu.com! Check it out and if you have a Hulu.com account and feel inclined to rate the trailer, please do so! Click here: http://www.hulu.com/trailers
Aug 25, 2010 | Categories: Updates | Tags: brothers, clean, crisis, documentary, featured, haiti, haitian, hulu, la source, preview, teaser, trailer, water | Leave A Comment »
Some of the Haiti crew meet for the first time to discuss our first trip to La Source, Haiti on March 29, 2010. From left to right, Jordan Wagner (Producer), Michael Tsao (Production Assistant), Jess Koehler (Photographer), Brandon Vedder (DP).
Mar 24, 2010 | Categories: Updates | Tags: brandon vedder, documentary, film, haiti, jess koehler, jordan wagner, la source, meeting, patrick shen, project, sustainable, water | 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
