The Kickstarter campaign was successful! And we’ve already been hard at work – had some great shooting days and have built a new website for the film! Please visit grazefilm.com for updates on the film project and all that good stuff! I’ll definitely still post here, but for everything Graze related, check out the film’s website! And if you’re in need of website/graphic design/animation for any project of yours, contact GabeSchwartz.com. He’s the brilliant designer who constructed the Graze website. Thanks Gabe!!

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.

Robyn Twomey and I are at it again with another music video for Butterscotch. This time we hired Mike Epple and his RED camera for the video, and now I’m getting to work on the edit. Stay tuned! But for now, take a look at some production stills on the ‘still images’ tab.

Butterscotch and me checking out the last take photo: Melissa de Mata

Butterscotch photo: Melissa de Mata

Tarek Milleron, the founder of Caura Futures, Kike Arnal and I just completed a short video clip to support Tarek’s project in the Amazon. He works with local Ye’kwana and Sanema village elders to promote the practice of climbing palms to harvest fruit rather than felling palms as they have done in recent years. Felling palms strips the jungle of harvestable crops for the next year, whereas climbing palm trees provides fruit for eating and selling year after year.

Tarek hopes to bring more gear this May so please visit the Indie GoGo link and help reach the goal!

Thanks!

http://www.indiegogo.com/New-Tools-for-Rain-Forest-Conservation

Thank you to all who came out on Monday for what was a wonderful event. We had a total of 186 people in the audience and a very engaging QA following the film. Thanks to all who participated.

We are now figuring out distribution and submitting to festivals so stay tuned to find out how you can see it again and get your own copy!  Suggestions on festivals and distributors are welcome. Please send me an email if you have a good idea on that.

-Viva