Vintage is a feature project we’re developing as a follow-up to our wine documentary. We’ve cut together a teaser, working with talented actors Seth Allen and Chuck Skinner, and are now moving onto the development and financing process. Anyone interested in the project should let us know as we look for cast, crew and production partners.
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Here’s the final version of our video for “The Wind Kept,” by Brave Julius, directed by Santiago Uceda and starring Matthew Joel Flood and Dominique Valodovinos:
We put in another day of shooting on a teaser for Vintage which is the project we’re hoping to tackle after Vino Veritas. The story follows the exploits of Bruno Tannenbaum, a washed-up wine writer who’s got one last shot of resurrecting his career. We filmed at a few locations across Portland with talented actor [...]
Like any good suburban neighbors hatching a scheme over beers and barbecue, Thomas Jefferson hatched a scheme with Filippo Mazzei, an Italian patriot living on the next hill over from Monticello. Mazzei was an Italian patriot from a well-known wine family. They decided that they’d form a company to produce fine, European style wines on [...]
For the next set of interviews for Vino Veritas, we traveled east, to Virginia, to learn a little about the birth of the wine industry in America. Most think of the West Coast as the original home to American wine, but in truth early colonists were required to plant vinifera, and Thomas Jefferson even was [...]
UPDATE: We’ll be holding open auditions in Corvallis at the Corvallis High School Black Box Theater on Sunday, February 19th, and then in Portland on SATURDAY, February 25 from 12:15 to 3:30 pm at the Northwest Film Center at 934 Salmon Street, downtown (note the changed time). We’re focusing on the search for our lead, [...]
By his own reckoning, Chris Czarnecki, executive chef at the Joel Palmer House in Dayton, Oregon, is “living the dream.” He can’t imagine anything else he’d rather do than head the kitchen in a fine dining restaurant surrounded by the local bounty of the Willamette Valley, not to mention some of the most noted pinot [...]
While we’re traveling the continent looking for wine folks with stories to tell as part of Vino Veritas, it’s easy to forget that we’re living in the middle of an up and coming, exciting wine region in the southern part of the Willamette Valley. Spindrift Cellars is less than three miles from our home base, [...]
We’ve launched a new Kickstarter campaign. We didn’t make our goal last fall, but that didn’t deter us. Since that time we’ve filmed dozens of interviews in three states, and we’d like to expand the reach farther. You can help us by pledging to our campaign by July 4th. If we make our goal, you [...]
When it comes to independent coverage of the world’s most captivating beverage, nobody has been doing it better, longer, and with as much enthusiasm as the guys from Grape Radio. They’ve been podcasting since it first came out, recording interviews and videos with sommeliers, wine writers, vignerons from around the world and just about every rockstar [...]
Vino Veritas: An American Wine Movie is our current feature documentary project. We’ve been filming in Washington and Oregon, and we have plans to start moving to the Midwest, Southwest and California as we capture stories of winemakers and their passionate pursuit of sunlight in bottle form.
While working on our feature doc, Vino Veritas, we had the chance to meet Mary Olson, owner of of Airlie Winery. Mary treats her guests like family, and nothing shows this better than the annual Starry Starry Nights campout where she invites her favorite customers for a night of music, wine and community. Kegan Sims [...]
Jim Day started his wine journey with a single barrel in his garage. Now he’s launching his own label, and he hasn’t grown much in scale. He’s got a few barrels at several area wineries, and he punches his caps and tops his barrels during his lunch break at his regular gig. Jim’s no less [...]
Here’s a video we put together for the cast and crew of our 2010 short, A Country Wedding. Shot in Summer 2009, we screened at the Da Vinci and Salem Film Festivals in 2010. This was our first narrative project and we’re pleased with how it turned out. We had an all-volunteer cast and crew, [...]
We’re thrilled that our first film project, the short A Country Wedding, will be showing at the Salem Film Festival in October. Screening schedules haven’t been released yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as they do. We’re in full documentary/fundraising mode now with Vino Veritas, and we’re learning that a doc is quite [...]