Newsletter #18: The romance of farming and filmmaking
Fine cut, picture lock, music, and sound design Up next: Final cut, festivals, and (another) cross-Canada tour. What does romance have to do with our economy?
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Newsletter #17: A rough cut and a path to completion
Sometime in early November, I sat down in front of my computer, and, for the very first time, watched a cut of The Hands that Feed Us that genuinely felt like a real documentary.
Newsletter #16: The Hands that Feed Us has an assembly cut
On December 13, I completed the first major step in editing The Hands that Feed Us: I finished the assembly cut. For the first time, I have the whole story in one place.
Newsletter #15: Tangible Progress for The Hands that Feed Us
I'm happy to say — for the first time since I left Salt Spring Island a year ago — I have a sense of momentum again.
Newsletter #11: How do I distill eight months of farming into 90 minutes?
When I sat down in January to start editing The Hands that Feed Us, I felt like I had a pretty good handle on what needed to happen. Boy was I wrong!
Newsletter #10: I'm done filming (for now)
I've collected about 200 hours of footage, done 49 interviews, visited five farms, and travelled coast-to-coast and back — about 20,000km. Somewhere in those hours of footage there is a documentary about what it takes for farmers to make a living.