Hinnerk is a dance-juggler and one of our featured artists… we interviewed him in November 2009 at a tiny little circus school in the middle of Berlin. He is amazing! Click on the photo below to watch the video on YouTube:
Eric (and Baby Mae) support Kunsthaus Tacheles! (Tacheles is featured in our film).
Eric filming b-roll at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, May 2010
Cool video of raw food chef Boris Lauser (he’s in our documentary, and he was our neighbor during our trip to Berlin last October… we tried to convince him to move to Memphis and make his amazing raw food for us on a regular basis… but alas…
A Balinese dinner journey by b.alive!
More than a year ago, we visited Studio Babelsberg to interview managing director Henning Molfenter. When we showed up with our huge equipment and lighting cases, the PR director asked, “Oh, you brought all your clothing with you?”
I don’t think they were expecting us to show up with lots of professional equipment. Good thing we did, though, because Studio Babelsberg is a huge studio, really the largest in Europe. Mr. Molfenter ended up giving us a great interview, even though it was a bit short.
This was recently aired on Deutsche Welle TV:
Chris McCoy, a writer/filmmaker here in Memphis, recently interviewed us for a blog post on Live From Memphis. It was all about crowd-funding (like what we are doing on IndieGoGo).
It does seem like everyone and their mama is doing a crowd-funding campaign these days. Lots of competition… and lots of very fund-worthy projects. May the best man/woman/project win!
(On that note, we are nearly 10% funded! 
We interviewed Anja back in November 2009. She and her staff of four were awesome. We had a great time doing the interview (and hearing the story about the bullet holes in her office wall), and afterward, we had lunch at the Clärchens Ballhaus, a fabulous old dance hall that still attracts a crowd on the weekends.
Check out this recent interview with Anja.
And remember to visit our IndieGoGo page! We’ve already had some donations! Danke! Thank You!
Our official promotion and fundraising campaign is a go!
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Just a quick update:
We got back from Berlin, and were plunged into the Memphis’ summer heat, which is actually probably a good thing, because it makes sitting inside in the A/C seem like a good idea.
And both Eric and I have been doing a LOT of sitting recently. He’s hard at work on the edit, and I’m hard at work trying to figure out what the heck I’m doing with the whole business plan.
I keep wishing for a wise mentor (think Karate Kid-esque) to appear in a robe and beard and walk me through this whole financing stage. But alas, no such mentor has arrived yet, and so I am at the mercy of my own online research skills.
I have found a very cool online forum called The D-Word. There are some really great filmmakers on there, having useful and interesting conversations. Looking forward to delving into that community even more in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, check out one of the coolest places we visited in Berlin, Kunsthaus Tacheles.
Grafitti near Kunsthaus Tacheles
