InCA Productions

©2001-2008 InCA:
Independent Communications Associates Inc.
38 Miller Avenue, PMB #289, Mill Valley. CA 94941
Tel 415.389.5000 - Fax 415.381.0465 - Email dkennard@inca-productions.com

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24 years of great documentary television

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION

Productions by InCA and its co-founder and president, David Kennard have won numerous awards, including national and international Emmies, the Peabody and Dupont Columbia awards. From The Ascent of Man to The Hero's Journey, from Cosmos to Connections, and from The Heart of the Dragon to Africa's Children and The Final Hours: Amelia Earhart's Last Flight, each project has been a milestone in its field. (Click underlined titles for video clips)

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InCA News: September 2008

Three documentary projects now in production

1. NEW: Powering Up

Production starts with new grant from CPB

(Images Source - Wikipedia)

"Powering Up" is a new multi-platform documentary project featuring individuals, families and communities who have embraced renewable energy and sustainable lifestyles. Produced by InCA and KRCB (Sonoma County Public Television), production is starting immediately, with a newly-announced grant from CPB (the Corporation for Public Broadcasting). Location shooting is happening NOW in the San Francisco Bay Area and will continue through mid September. The first versions to be distributed will be in the form of short interstitial stories between programs on Public Television stations, together with viral online marketing through multiple websites and YouTube, to coincide with the national elections in November. Future versions include 30 & 60-minute documentaries.

Senior producer: David Kennard

Story producers: Amanda Huelse and Jamie Lejeune

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Also in production:

2. Keeping Score: The Second Series

First edit of all three shows completed

After the success of the pilot program ("The Making of a Performance": Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony) and the first series (Ludwig Van Beethoven’s “Eroica”, Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”, and "Aaron Copland and the American Sound": SEE BELOW), InCA is collaborating with Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony to create three more films, bringing great musical works to life. The final location shooting for the Berlioz, Ives and Shostakovich films was completed in March 2008. The rough-cuts for all three shows have been completed, and the project is NOW entering the final phases of post-production: fine-cuts, animation, online editing in High Definition and audio mixing in Surround Sound. The new series will be delivered in February 2009 and will premiere on PBS nationally later that year . See www.keepingscore.org

• click here for a clip from the original pilot: "The Making of a Performance"

SECOND SERIES

1) Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
2) Ives: Holidays Symphony
3) Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony

Created in High Definition and Surround Sound, the series features lavish locations in ROME, PARIS, LONDON, SWITZERLAND, ST PETERSBURG, MOSCOW, NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND and SAN FRANCISCO, as well as live performances by the San Francisco Symphony and MTT.

Produced and directed by David Kennard and Joan Saffa

NEW! Encore performances of Keeping Score: The First Series on PBS nationally:

11, 18 and 25 September 2008, at 10pm (check local listings)

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3. ReCreating America: The Creativity Project

Second film: location work complete, now being edited

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

In August 2008, we were commissioned to create stories #3,4 and 5, featuring creativity in education: scouting and script development is NOW in process, and the stories will be filmed on location in October and November 2008.

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 is NOW in post-production.

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 $600,000 has already been committed.

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.

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

Produced by David and Lizzie Kennard.

Directed and edited by Michael O'Connell

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Currently in Post-production

The Heart of the Universe:

A mind-blowing journey through 14 billion years in just two hours!
Produced by David and Lizzie Kennard

(Telescope Image Source - Wikipedia)

• click here for a short clip of the work in progress

In April 2006, principal photography commenced for “The Heart of the Universe”, a four part documentary series written and presented by Brian Swimme, co-written by Mary Evelyn Tucker and David Kennard, produced and directed by David and Lizzie Kennard. The film is set in the Greek island of Samos, and promises to be a unique parable about the past 14 billion years. Photography was completed in Samos in October 2006. Editing started in 2007 and continues, pending further fund-raising. Graphics and music are NOW under development. The film is planned to be distributed theatrically and will eventually be available on Public Television in two formats: three or four thirty-minute episodes, and one 90-minute or two-hour special.

For more information on the man behind the movie, visit www.brianswimme.org.

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Recently Completed Films

CleanFish:

The Scottish Salmon and Mexican Shrimp stories
Produced by David and Lizzie Kennard

Directed and edited by Andres Cediel

(Images Source - Wikipedia)

• click here for a short clip from 'Loch Duart' (the Scottish Salmon story)

• click here for a short clip from 'The Fisherman's Daughter' (the Mexican Shrimp story)

In December 2006, the first shooting for a new multi-part venture on sustainable fisheries commenced in Mazatlan, Mexico, in collaboration with the non-profit CleanFish organization. This first story is now in distribution on DVD, through CleanFish.

In early 2008, location photography and post-production were completed for the second story in the far North-West of Scotland (featuring the 200-year-old salmon fishery at Loch Duart) and the third story, featuring the shrimp boats of Guaymas, Mexico. The first editions of these stories have been delivered, and will be updated in late 2008. Work is NOW in progress to raise funds for a half-hour PBS version of these stories.

Please visit www.cleanfish.com for more information about the future of sustainable fishing, and for copies of these DVDs.

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InCA: Recent productions available on DVD

The Power of the Sun

Narrated and hosted by John Cleese

Senior Producer: David Kennard

Directed and edited by Victoria Simpson

(Images Source - Wikipedia)

• click here for a short clip

Hosted and narrated by John Cleese, InCA’s new one-hour documentary on Light and Solar Energy was featured at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in early February 2006, and has now been distributed to television networks worldwide (premiering in Europe on Austrian Television in November 2006). The show received its East Coast US premiere in Washington D.C. at the Solar Power industry Festival in October, 2005, and its West Coast premiere a month later at UCSB, (University of California, Santa Barbara), which commissioned the project.

Its US television premiere was on KRCB (San Francisco Bay Area Channel 22) on Tuesday April 17, 2007 at 9pm ( www.krcb.org ) following which it was uplinked to PBS stations nationally on May 27, 2007, and will be broadcast throughout the year on Public Television across the country. So far, it has aired on more than 75 PBS stations, including twelve major markets.

“The Power of the Sun” is a 56-minute film, telling the story of photovoltaics – Light; History and Science; Implementation; and Future. It was filmed in Japan, Germany, England, Massachusetts, New Jersey and California.The film is a scientific morality tale: how, starting from the most pure and basic science (Einstein’s insight about light), through stages of brilliant applied engineering, there emerged one of the most promising multi-billion-dollar energy technologies. Solar power is an economically realistic, clean and safe energy source, which will help us replace fossil fuels as the new century unfolds.

The film is already in educational distribution. For more information and to order DVDs please contact www.powerofthesun.ucsb.edu

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Keeping Score: Series 1 – Revolutions in Music

Premiered on PBS nationally in November, 2006

NEW! Encore performances on PBS nationally: 11, 18 and 25 September at 10pm

(check local listings)

1) Beethoven’s Eroica

• click here for a short clip

2) Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring

• click here for a short clip

3) Aaron Copland and the American Sound
• click here for a short clip

Produced and directed by David Kennard and Joan Saffa

In these behind-the scenes documentaries, Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) investigates three remarkable composers and their individual creative journeys: Ludwig Van Beethoven’s “Eroica”, Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”, and Aaron Copland and the American Sound. MTT visits Vienna, Prague, St. Petersburg, Paris and New York to tell the stories of the composers’ lives. The San Francisco Symphony unlocks the powerful and vibrant emotions of each composer's music. Individual members of the orchestra explain the challenges and joys of creating these extraordinary works.

The "Keeping Score" series, completed in the Spring of 2006, aired nationally on PBS in November 2006, presented by KQED San Francisco (www.kqed.org). It is a part of a major initiative of the San Francisco Symphony called “Keeping Score: MTT on Music”, aimed at offering audiences of today new ways to connect to classical music. Keeping Score encompasses the Internet, radio, DVD’s, and educational and outreach programs around the United States. To order DVDs, please visit www.keepingscore.org

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John Cleese's Wine for the Confused

Produced and directed by David Kennard

Filmed and edited by Victoria Simpson

(Images Source - InCA and Wikipedia)

• click here for a short clip

This funny, informative one-hour show premiered on the Food Channel in October 2004 and has already been repeated several times. It is now in distribution on DVD from Koch Entertainment. (to order your DVD, please visit www.kochvision.com)

Wine is Confusing. So where do you start if you want to learn more about it? In John Cleese's Wine for the Confused, John takes a witty personal look at the world of winemaking. He discovers:
- How to find wines that taste good to you
- How to get the best value
- How to keep and serve wine at home
As John says: "Don’t let anyone tell you what wine you should like because people have different tastes, and we shall honor that."

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One Bite of the Apple: a portrait of the artist Edwina Sandys

Produced and directed by David Kennard

Filmed and edited by Victoria Simpson

(Image Copyright - Edwina Sandys)

• click here for a short clip

Winston Churchill's granddaughter, Edwina Sandys is one of the most remarkable artists of her generation. Her work defies easy categorization, ranging from surrealism and graphic art to monumental bronzes and marble pieces, from abstraction to high realism, from the deeply serious to the witty and provocative.

This engaging biography of Edwina, filmed on location in London, New York, Florida and Missouri, was co-produced with South Carolina ETV. It was distributed nationally on PBS in 2004, and has been repeated frequently on Public Television stations since that date.
For more information and to order DVDs, please contact www.edwinasandys.com.

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InCA: Some of the classic shows from the last 20 years

(Click the production stills for video clips)