The journey continues now as we try to finish post-production...
... we went back out recently, back onto the river to shoot a few pick-up shots and to conduct a couple of new interviews to round out the footage we have. So part of the money we had raised went to the completion of the filming. We could still use help getting back into the editing and recording studios so we can finally finish up and start hitting the film festival circuit.
Cinéma
A Dream too good to just let it die!
Step 1) Was to get downriver!
Nearly 60 years old. Nearly 2500 miles/4000 kilometers.
And we did it.
Our Goals and our Promises have not changed. But we need to finish the job.
Step 2) With the beautiful footage we have, we definitely have something remarkable. But we need to transform the raw stone into the polished and cut diamond it will be.
Team Mississippi has gone far above and beyond the call of duty. I could not be happier with their commitment and with the work each and every member of the team performed. Mississippi Solo 2 -- which we are now calling River to the Heart -- would have been utterly impossible without them. I have nothing but praise for them. And gratitude!
But those lovely
images and interviews are nothing if we can't put them together. The
miracle of getting downriver will be for nothing if we can't get into
the post-production studio and edit the film and put music to it and
bring the thing to life.
So let's not let their work be wasted. Let's call on everyone we know to chip in so we can finally get this done.
Join us and discover what we discovered: what makes this place and this river and this journey and this project so special.
At every turn Harris challenges assumptions about race, challenging readers to examine their own minds.... The Los Angeles Reader
Harris is not your everyday tourist. His travels almost always have a purpose... USA Today
...these wandering have brought him to some fragile peace... People Magazine
[His journeys] are most noticeable for the bridges he builds with other people... San Francisco Chronicle
OUR INCREDIBLE TEAM
We have on our team a very talented group of motivated professionals who are as impassioned by this project as I am:
Winners of multiple Emmy Awards and counted among the world's best nature and wildlife cinematographers, Neil Rettig, John Benam and Skip Hobbie have captured the majesty of the river in all its sensuousness. I couldn't have imaged better. And our soundguy Parker Brown has captured the music of the Mississippi River and the voices of nature that run alongside it with such subtlety that even the silence rings out. Remarkable stuff, all of it!
John Freeburn is our senior editor and post-production guru. Possibly best known for his work on the National Geographic WILD projects, he has won numerous awards in both the US and in the UK for his work.
Let's put on the finishing touches and make a really great film.
THANK YOU
Eddy L. Harris -- and all of Team Mississippi
