My good friend, the talented and trustworthy food blogger Ferron Salniker, asked me to write a guest post on Ferronlandia about my recent travels on the east coast and how I dined. Read it and see some mouth-watering photos here!

Also, there’s a facebook page for Graze as well, so all you fans can share thoughts and support publicly and informally (if you’re on facebook)! ‘Like’ it at facebook.com/grazefilm

And stay in touch!!!

-Viva

Help us get to production and build momentum for this film project! Visit the link below and contribute today…then pass it on…

THANK YOU!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vivabarrows/graze-goats-for-hire  

You Got To Move (1985), an award winning documentary film, is being re-released by Milliarium Zero fall of 2011. Directed by Lucy Massie Phenix, this film is focused on the importance of social movements and the urgency that is needed in the pursuit of justice, be it local or global issues. The re-release of this film 26 years later is testament to the fact that this message remains current.

Lucy Phenix is a dear friend and mentor of mine and she asked me if I could edit the trailer for the re-release of You Got To Move. It is ready for you to watch, click the ‘moving images’ tab. The film will be out soon and everyone needs to see it if they haven’t already.

Kike Arnal setting up the shot. photo: Viva

Click on the ‘Moving Images’ tab to see the new teaser clip I compiled from the first two days of preliminary shooting! Just to give you all a sense of what the work and characters look like of Goats R Us and also what the film is about!

Thanks for watching!

Back in November 2010, Robyn Twomey , Matt Maniego and I collaborated on a music video for Zion I for the song ‘Infatuation’ off their album Atomic Clock.

Watch it on their youtube channel and also on this blog: click the moving images tab and it’s sittin right there for ya.

Make it go viral!!

Photos from the first shoot

In 2009 I wrote about wanting to do a project on ‘Goats R Us’ however it never materialized. The timing was not right for anyone and we lost touch. Fast forward to April 2011: the goats and the lovely family were still on my mind two years later and I just couldn’t shake the idea from my head. Eager to see if we could get this project going again, I made contact with Terri Oyarzun, typed up a proposal and met her at a cafe in Orinda to talk about the project. She said this was the right time for her and her family and employees (goats included) to do something like this and is just as excited as I am.

As of today, I have officially begun the project! With Kike Arnal as my DP, we will bring the stories of Goats R Us and the herders from Peru and Chile and their connection to the surrounding environment and to the animals onto the big screen. Their busy season starts now so we will be shooting and editing a trailer and continuing to shoot throughout the season for the film itself. I am so thrilled to have stuck with this idea and to finally see it happen.