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Life on the Douro, Trip no. 5, Day 2 – The River
Outside of three important interviews, the reason for this trip is to get quality visual material that will convey much of the story. On Saturday, I filmed for a couple of hours during a boat ride on the Douro around … Continue reading
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Life on the Douro, Trip no. 5, Day 1 in Porto
I’m feel an urgency to get some very high quality shots to finish Life on the Douro. Yesterday, I got a few hours of shooting in Gaia and Porto. Great, sunny day, and I had to ruefully tear myself away … Continue reading
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Life on the Douro, Trip no. 5, Day 1 in Porto
I’m feel an urgency to get some very high quality shots to finish Life on the Douro. Yesterday, I got a few hours of shooting in Gaia and Porto. Great, sunny day, and I had to ruefully tear myself away … Continue reading
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The Sounds of Silence of the Douro
Life on the Douro is in the final stages of editing, and I’m working on the audio, agonizing over the right mix of the interviews, casual conversations, background sounds, and music. The music should convey a certain sense of pace … Continue reading
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Life on the Douro, Short Films and Friends
I met Ryan and Gabriella Opaz of http://catavino.net somewhere in cyberspace after finishing my first wine documentary, La Bobal, which started out an idea for a short film but ended up absorbing my life. We met in person in London … Continue reading
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Life on the Douro
In just over a week, I’ll be going to Porto and then the Douro region for my fifth trip to film material that I need to fill a few gaps in my 3/4 finished Life on the Douro documentary. By … Continue reading
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Paint, film, and wine
Since my early teens, I’ve had two obsessions – art and film. I did a lot of drawing and painting and saw a lot of movies, and after high school toyed with the idea of studying film but decided on … Continue reading
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Stories and Storytelling
Life on the Douro, which I had been editing in separate segments, was finally put together on one timeline yesterday, followed by an elated feeling that it was getting close to being finished. But that feeling ended when I took … Continue reading
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Making the Dinastia Vivanco documentary
Over the last couple of years, I’ve traveled over 18,000 kilometres, visiting about 20 Spanish wine regions, plus the Douro region of Portugal, and have filmed over 230 hours of material that will be made into four documentaries related to … Continue reading
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On Perception
My interview with Tim Hanni, MW, seemed to have resonated with a lot of people, demystifying certain questions about the subjectivity of taste and perception in wine. What he said made a lot of sense to me as a non-wine … Continue reading
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