SUMMER, 2010

Summer, 2010 finds us heavy into editing on two exciting documentary projects—Master Craftsmen in the Building Arts and Kentucky—An American Story.

The Craftsmen film is a collaboration with our longtime friend and colleague Marjorie Hunt. Margie is a folklorist at the Smithsonian Institution, going back to the days when we collaborated on The Stone Carvers, our film that won the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. The new film could be considered a “sequel” to the Stone Carvers. It profiles eight master craftsmen in a range of building arts in various materials, including stone, terra cotta, plaster, metal, glass, paint and adobe.

The Kentucky film is a two hour history of the Bluegrass State (where Paul grew up) narrated by Ashley Judd and co-produced with colleague Dan Smith, former chairperson of the University of Kentucky history department. The film takes an innovative topical approach, suggesting how the state’s history is relevant to the present and how it mirrors the larger American experience.

Both films are slated for completion in 2011.