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News: May 2013
A Year in Burgundy: selected for French Oenovideo Wine Film Festival
Journey of the Universe wins Montana Cine Film Festival Global Award
8 Ways to Wellbeing: first website under construction, with video stories
The Lute Maker’s Daughter: InCA’s first-ever animation/fiction project
A Year in Champagne – production complete, editing in progress
Third wine film: A Year in Port – first shoot completed in Portugal
Burgundy: Sonoma FilmFest news. Oenovideo Fest in June
Written and directed by David Kennard. Camera and editing: Jamie Lejeune.
A YEAR IN BURGUNDY has been nominated as an Official Selection of the
prestigious OENOVIDEO Film Festival, to be held in Carcassonne, France.
The film will open the first day of the festival on Thursday 30 May at 4pm
The film had its Northern California Premiere at the Sonoma International
Film Festival on Thursday April 11 at the Sebastiani Theater. The screening sold out,
as did a second screening at Healdsburg’s multiplex Raven Film Center.
The World Premiere of the film was a smash hit at California’s Santa Barbara
International Film Festival in January, filling the 800-seat Lobero Theater and
selling out the venue twice at the Museum of Art, where200 people were turned away.
We were selected as “Best of the Fest”, one of the top-10 favorite films of the 200 shown
at Santa Barbara, and two further viewings were scheduled for the following week.
Follow our success here
Full news and details about the film at the website “A Year in Burgundy”
The film features a year in the life of the wine-makers of Burgundy, France.
It was shot on location throughout 2011 and early 2012.
A sell-out crowd applauded the first private screening of the completed film at BAFTA,
the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, in London on September 12, 2012.
A screening in Paris on September 18 won wide press and critical acclaim
from French media. On October 15 the film was sneak-previewed at the
Tribeca Film Festival Cinema in New York City, to an enthusiastic crowd.
At the Clay Theater in San Francisco on December 3, 250 people applauded the film
and the Burgundy wine that was served to accompany it.
Visit the film’s website for all the latest news, and to watch the trailer.
Second wine film, “A Year in Champagne,” now editing
Our second film on fine wine, A Year in Champagne, completed its final French shoot in September
2012 and is now in post-production. One final scene was shot in England at the end of March 2013.
Featuring the extraordinary history and mythology of Champagne,
this film will paint intimate portraits of wine-makers and their families,
and reveal some of the secrets of creating legendary Bubbly.
Third wine film, “A Year in Port” completes first shoot
Our third film on fine wine, A Year in Port, completed its first location shooting in the Douro Valley
and the city of Oporto, Portugal during March, 2013. Further dramatic scenes will be shot in June.
8 Ways to Wellbeing: new film project and website
This new multi-media documentary project features the ground-breaking work of
Dr. Roger Walsh, Professor of Psychiatry, Anthropology and Philosophy at U.C. Irvine.
Titled “8 Ways to Wellbeing”, the project investigates how TLC’s (Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes)
can positively impact everyone’s mood, attitude and mental health.
The producers are creating a new inspirational website with Video on Demand.
Later, they will sign up volunteers and film the results of their lifestyle changes.
The resulting 60-minute documentary will be nationally distributed on PBS.
The website will offer information and community support for those who
choose to participate in the “8 Ways” program.
Producer and Director of Research: Lizzie Kennard.
Writer and Director: David Kennard.
Full production is targeted to commence in Spring 2013
Watch the 12-minute promotional video
The Lute Maker’s Daughter: new animated film
Pre-production continues on InCA’s first-ever animated film, a half-hour fantasy
set in ancient China, based on historically accurate backgrounds and research.
The script is now complete. Storyboards and soundtrack are now being created.
James Kennard is the concept artist and lead animator.
Based on a book by Dan Liebowitz and Barbara Kanowick, the film will be targeted at
a worldwide family audience and launched at animation festivals internationally.
If successful, this will be the first in a series of animated films featuring Chinese history.
Completion funding is being sought currently from Chinese and American sources.
Click here for a gallery of selected production artwork
"Universe" wins 2012 Montana CINE Fest Global Award
Journey of the Universe
A mind-blowing journey through 14 billion years
A documentary special produced and directed by David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt
Location Producer (Samos, Greece): Lizzie Kennard
Journey of the Universe has won the prestigious Global Award at the 2012 Montana CINE
International Film Festival, plus a “Merit for Scientific Achievement and Cinematography”
The film also won the Northern California Emmy for Best Documentary of the last year.
Yale University Press publishes the book, also available in Korean & French. To order, visit here
DVDs are now available: visit www.journeyoftheuniverse.org
You can find the film on PBS stations: KQED PLUS, April 23 at 10pm
The 20-part educational video series is now available. See here for a pdf press release
“Journey of the Universe” is a documentary epic written and presented by Brian Swimme,
co-written and executive-produced by Mary Evelyn Tucker, produced and directed
by David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt, with location producer 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.
For more information on the film and the book, and to see the trailer, visit www.journeyoftheuniverse.org
Reinventing Yourself now available on DVD
This compelling one-hour film tells the story of four people who decided to start life all over again –
re-shaping their work, their relationships and their world-view. Why and how did they take this step?
In the final story, creativity and mentoring helped the Chickasaw nation to redefine its future.
Premiered in April/May 2012 on PBS stations nationally
Now available on DVD directly from InCA Productions
Watch a teaser trailer
Download the press kit PDF
“Deep Waters”: arctic documentary story
Created and produced by Alisha Lumea and David Kennard
InCA’s first ever short documentary is set in the Arctic.
The film features Inuit families as they battle for survival in this harsh but beautiful place.
Can fishing continue to support their way of life, as the climate changes and the ice melts?
Filming took place in August 2011 in Pangnirtung, a tiny Inuit community on Baffin Island:
– please click below to watch the story: “Summer Days”.
Watch the first story
Don't miss InCA’s timeless international music hit!
Keeping Score: Mahler – 2-hour movie version in distribution on DVD
InCA’s two-hour Theatrical/DVD Movie won the German Record Critics’ Annual Award, 2011
Since 1980, this award has set “the most rigorous standards for supreme achievement and quality”
in the field of music recording. For more information, visit here. The film, produced by Joan Saffa and
David Kennard, is the final part of an eight-film series, created originally for PBS from 2003-2010.
Visit the San Francisco Symphony’s award-winning website keepingscore.org for more information
