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Greater Everglades Conservation Atlas

January 19th, 2012

I’m really excited to share a new project, The Greater Everglades Conservation Atlas. A partnership between the Legacy Institute for Nature and Culture and National Geographic’s Mapping Service, the Atlas will showcase ten artists who live and work in the Everglades through an interactive online map program called GeoStories. Manship has been hired to produce the video content for the project as well as to manage the GeoStory website.

Here is the first video piece featuring artist Christopher Still:

 

Spycation

May 10th, 2011

We put together a team for the Tallahassee Film Festivals 48 Hour Film Contest this year! The contest gave us forty-eight hours to write, shoot, and edit a five minute video based on a theme, a prop, and a line of dialogue provided by the judges. This year, the theme was Redemption, the prop was a pair of handcuffs, and the line of dialogue was, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”

We came up with the story of Doug, a computer programmer who wins the chance to have an adventure-fueled spy vacation weekend. We ran (literally!) all over Tallahassee, yelled in fake Russian, and generally had a fantastic time. No, we didn’t win, but that’s fine – as you can see we made an insane and entertaining video out of our forty-eight hour rampage.

Jubilee Film Festival

March 2nd, 2011

This weekend is the Jubilee Film Festival in Selma, Alabama! The festival is being held as part of the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, commemorating Dr. King’s march from Selma to Alabama and the confrontation at Edmund Pettus Bridge. On Sunday the film festival will be screening “M.F.D.P.”, my film on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, at 7:15pm at the Selma Performing Arts Center. This will be the first festival screening for the movie, so I’m very excited!

Jubilee Film Festival 2011

Three Views of Deep Water

February 13th, 2011

Back in May I started traveling Florida’s Gulf Coast to record the events of the oil spill as they occurred. During my journeys I came across a foreman named Hoss, a community Coast Watch, glowing oil on Pensacola Beach, scientists digging ditches, and a certain supernaturally-tan Governor, among other things. This trailer is for a series of three documentary shorts based on what I learned.

I am currently editing the first of the three, an account of the initial impact and cleanup effort. The second will cover the science of the spill and its consequences, and the third will cover the politics and activism of oil in Florida. Do you have an interesting lead on oil-related events in Florida? Email me at manshipfilms@gmail.com.

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