It’s been a big couple of months, as we’ve been hoofing it around the world to shoot a series of 12 stories to be released in early 2012 for Australian winemaker Jacob’s Creek. Each of these 3-5 minute true life narratives features an inspiring person who is true to themselves, and an inspiration to others. From Elizabeth Bloom, who makes handmade jewelry from scraps of Chanel tweed she sources from a mill near her hometown in Northern England…

…to Satya Twena, who first started making hats for her mother whose hair was falling out from chemotherapy treatments, and has now built a reputation as one of the rising stars of the fashion world as a milliner in New York City…

…to the Van Leeuwen’s, who started a family business making artisan ice cream out of all-natural ingredients…

Each story is inspiring, each individual has followed their true calling, and it has been an absolutely amazing journey pulling these stories together with Soap Creative.

Client: Jacob’s Creek
Agency: Soap Creative
Director: Jim Lounsbury
Producer: Behren Schulz

Just stumbled across an article in The Guardian about Girls being Key to Food Security… Exciting because we’re currently in post production on ‘The Road to Tumaini’ about that very issue.

Here’s an excerpt:

“The role of women and adolescent girls is spelt out in a report released on Friday by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Girls Grow: A Vital Force in Rural Economies (pdf). Its key point is that adolescent girls and women are the key to unlocking the full potential of agricultural development in poor countries and ensuring food security.”

Read full article at The Guardian ->

The Road to Tumaini is an experiential tale, a coming of age story about young Australians facing a hard reality, and growing through it. It is also an essential document of the most effective ways to sustain long-term developmental change in Africa… through the education of the girl child.

“The education of girls yields a higher rate of return
than any other investment in the developing world”
Lawrence Summers, Chief Economist, World Bank

The Nissan Navara campaign has just gone live. You can see the first video we did with the team over at Whybin\TBWA\Tequila\ on Facebook.

Keep a lookout over the next month or so as the TVCs and Digital campaign roll out.

Agency Producer: Pete Gately
Producer: Behren Schulz
Director: Jim Lounsbury
DP: John Biggins

Just finished production on the latest Nissan Navara campaign with the guys at Whybin\TBWA\Tequila. Special thanks to the Melbourne crew for making it such an effortless, fun shoot.

Agency Producer: Pete Gately
Producer: Behren Schulz
Director: Jim Lounsbury
DP: John Biggins
Art Director: Hugh Richards

We’re proud to be working with director Kimberley Duband on The Road to Tumaini, a documentary about four female architects who follow their dream to build a girls school in Kenya, but who are drawn into a treacherous partnership with a corrupt aide organization, and are forced to leave when their lives are threatened. Two years later, they finally return to Africa to fulfill their dream of providing education to girls in Kenya.

The Road to Tumaini is an experiential tale, a coming of age story about young Australians facing a hard reality, and growing through it. It is also an essential document of the most effective ways to sustain long-term developmental change in Africa… through the education of the girl child.

“The education of girls yields a higher rate of return
than any other investment in the developing world”
Lawrence Summers, Chief Economist, World Bank

Producer: Jim Lounsbury
Director: Kimberley Duband

The REVOLUTION 3D trailer is done! You can read more about the project, and see the trailer online in both 2D and 3D anaglyph (you’ll need the red and blue glasses to see this) at www.revolution3d.tv

It was an epic effort to shoot, compile and create every element in 3D, and we couldn’t have done it without the help of FSM, so thanks to everyone there for getting us over the line. We even did a 2D to 3D conversion on one shot… see if you can guess which one it was!

Next week we’re off to MIPTV to work with our distributors at Off the Fence, to find the right broadcast partners for the project, so… fun, fun.

This week, thanks to the support of Screen NSW, we’re putting together a 3D trailer for ‘Revolution 3D’ our latest documentary series, in partnership with GBO 3D Media & Entertainment and Onion Media Group about 3D pioneers, Peter Parks, Hoyt Yeatman, Lenny Lipton and Eric Brevig. Last week we had a play with the new HD Panasonic 3D camera, and we’ll be combining the footage we shot with scenes from G-Force 3D, Bugs 3D and Journey to the Centre of the Earth 3D to show the technological wizardry of the individuals behind these films, and the 3D world they are ushering us into.

Special thanks to Frame Set Match for your support, Village Roadshow for the use of your theatrette and TATA Communications for providing us with a workflow solution to getting these enormous 3D clips in from the four corners of the universe, as well as our partners Joe Dunton at Hat Factory Post and Chris Parks at Vision3 for your assistance with providing 3D footage.

Executive Producer: Mark Montgomery
Producer: Joe Thomas
Co-Producer: Behren Schulz
Director: Jim Lounsbury
DP: Anthony Jennings

Read more at the Beyond Infinity Website.

There comes a time when every campaign hits Youtube. This is that time for Love Package…

Producer: Kimberley Duband
Writer/Director: Jim Lounsbury
Cinematographer: John Biggins
Cast: Luke Bridgford, Daniel Mulvihil, Giovana Falanga, Vola Vandere

The final edit of Love Package is signed off and we’re now into post finishing. The online release of the short film will be on the 11th of February, to coincide with the release of a new software package by Data Tools.

Love Package

Love at first sight

Last week, we shot a funny online short film for Data Tools to be released in conjunction with the launch of their new software package “Correct Address”.

Special thanks to everyone who worked on the production, and to The Crossing at O’Brien St. Bondi for providing us with such a great location (if you’re ever after a watering hole in that neck of the world, try it out, the vibe is no mirage).

read more at Emily Sarks blog…

Producer: Kimberley Duband
Director: Jim Lounsbury
DP: John Biggins
Second Unit: Louis Westgarth
Sound: Trent Dobson
Production Support: Peter Maple
Everything Else (practically): Emily Sarks
Starring:
Luke Bridgford
Daniel Mulvehil
Giovana Falanga
Vola Vandere

Sending the love package

Meeting at The Crossing