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February 2010

• Keeping Score Series 3: production continues in Europe and US on new Mahler films
• Keeping Score Series 2: Repeat showings on PBS stations nationally
• ReCreating America: National TV premiere in May 2010



In Production: 2-hour Mahler epic for Spring 2011

Keeping Score: Third Series Filming in San Francisco

Production on the third series of this award-winning project continues in San Francisco. Producers Joan Saffa and David Kennard are working with Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony to create two new films on the composer Gustav Mahler, to be launched in 2011 on the centennial of Mahler's death. The first week of large-scale studio shooting has been completed with MTT on Zellerbach A Stage in San Francisco, with a second week at the end of February/start of March. Post-production (off-line editing) starts this month,too.


Insider news
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• Watch for the new series "The Mind Behind the Wine" - the geniuses who craft the world's finest wines, with Debbie Zacharias and Josh Nossiter
• "The Secret History of the Tango": production partners Terry Clarke and Bea Dennis will spend April 2010 in Buenos Aires, setting up the project
• "Life After Death" in development with Third Eye Media and ex-BBC producer Tony Edwards


Don't miss the latest InCA films this winter

1: Keeping Score: Second Series
DVD, International-TV and PBS versions now available
1) Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
2) Ives: Holidays Symphony
3) Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony

Produced and directed by Joan Saffa and David Kennard

Created in High Definition and Surround Sound, the second series features lavish locations in ROME, PARIS, SWITZERLAND, ST PETERSBURG, MOSCOW, NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND and SAN FRANCISCO, as well as live performances by the San Francisco Symphony and MTT. The shows premiered nationally on PBS in October and November. See local PBS listings for exact times and dates of repeat broadcasts in your region, and visit www.keepingscore.org to purchase DVD or BluRay copies.



• click here for a clip from the original pilot: "The Making of a Performance"
See below for more information about Keeping Score: The First Series, available on DVD, and Keeping Score: Mahler, now in production.


2: ReCreating America: Creativity and Learning
National premiere on Public Television in May 2010, distributed to PBS by NETA
Second film already in production: Chickasaw Nation story complete



• click here for a short clip from "The Flower Mound Story"

It was back in October 2004 that David and Lizzie Kennard started consulting with OETA (Oklahoma Public Television) and the Kirkpatrick Foundation, with a view to developing a major state-wide and national media project on Creativity. Planned to be developed and produced over ten years, the goal is nothing less than creating a new sense of mission and purpose for the state of Oklahoma. For more information, please visit www.stateofcreativity.com

The full state-wide Creative Oklahoma project – impacting education, research, commerce and the arts – was launched at a major event in Oklahoma City on February 8, 2008, to celebrate the start of the second hundred years of Oklahoma statehood. This event saw the premiere of The Flower Mound Story, the first part of InCA's Recreating America national television series for PBS, featuring the astonishing accomplishments of the A+ Educational system.

On June 9 2008, the first major promotional campaign for the films was rolled out in Oklahoma City, to publicize the next stage of fund-raising and production for this ground-breaking multi-media project. More than $750,000 has already been committed.

In July 2008 our second film, The Chickasaw Story, was successfully filmed on location in southern Oklahoma. Telling the story of the remarkable re-birth of the Chickasaw nation, guided by the creative genius of Governor Anoatubby, this film has now been completed. It will form a part of the second one-hour PBS documentary, on creativity in the second half of life.

In August 2008, InCA was commissioned to create stories #3,4 and 5, featuring creativity in education: the stories were filmed on location in November 2008 at the Educare pre-school in Tulsa, at Piedmont Middle School and at Santa Fe South charter high school in Oklahoma City: these form part of the first one-hour feature.

The first one-hour film for PBS, featuring creativity in education and based on the Oklahoma stories, was premiered exclusively on OETA, Oklahoma's PBS network, at 9 p.m. on 13 October 2009, with national broadcast planned for PBS in May 2010. The second film, on Creativity in the Second Half of Life, will continue in production in 2010, building on the existing Chickasaw story.

Produced by David and Lizzie Kennard.
Directed and edited by Michael O'Connell


In Post-production: seeking final funding

Journey of the Universe
A mind-blowing journey through 14 billion years in 60 minutes!
A documentary feature produced and directed by David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt
Location Producer: Lizzie Kennard


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In 2006, principal photography commenced for “Journey of the Universe”, a documentary epic written and presented by Brian Swimme, co-written and executive-produced by Mary Evelyn Tucker, directed by David Kennard, produced by Patsy Northcutt and Lizzie Kennard. The film, set in the Greek island of Samos, is a unique and exciting parable about the past 14 billion years, with stunning special effects. Special effects work commenced in 2007 and a first rough-cut was finished in October 2008. Final fund-raising is now in progress. The film will initially be distributed in a 60-minute version, with a 13-part web-based educational program, incorporating much extra footage and expert commentary,

For more information on the man behind the movie and the Center for the Story of the Universe, visit www.brianswimme.org