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The Blakely Burl Tree Project
(Beginning June 28, 2009)
VIEW TRAILER
Ken Browne Productions and Gregory Andracke Cinematographer
The Blakely Burl Tree project is being filmed as an HD documentary film
beginning with the documentation of the harvesting of the Blakely Burl
Tree, and filming footage
in Blakely to gather material for a larger project being developed for a
special presentation.
The film crew is Ken Browne,
Videographer, Producer and Editor,
and Gregory Andracke, Cinematographer.
Mark Lindquist, Project Director, and John McFadden, (Lindquist Studios
photographer),
will be assisting with stills and second unit services during filming.
About the Crew
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KEN BROWNE -
Ken Browne
Productions - New York
City.
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Since 1986, Ken Browne
Productions has been an Emmy Award winning resource for
broadcast television programming, and contractor for award
winning corporate and institutional video/film products. The
firm’s many clients have ranged from the New York Yankees to
the NYC Department of Education. Ken Browne’s interest in the
cultural heritage of American studio crafts and fine
arts/design found expression in the 2001 documentary Four
Hands One Heart: Ed and Mary Scheier – a co-production with
the Currier Museum of Art, NH, and the University of New
Hampshire. This film profile of the major 20th century
American studio pottery couple, was first broadcast on NH
Public Television, and presented to a national PBS audience
through American Public Television. (see
www.4hands1heart.com ) Called “ a touching portrait”
by American Craft Magazine, Four Hands One Heart: Ed and Mary
Scheier continues to air on over 150 PBS stations and in
Canada, and the film has been screened at major museum events
around the US. In 2007, NHPTV premiered A League Of Our Own:
New Hampshire And The American Craft Movement, a one hour
documentary by Ken Browne on the 75th anniversary of the
pioneering League of NH Craftsmen, which commissioned the film
and collaborated on funding, content, and promotion.
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The film was a selection of
the 2007 NH Film Festival, and has aired in prime time in the
New England PBS market three straight years. (see
http://www.kbprods.com/league )
In 2008, Ken Browne joined the production team for ICONS: A
TRIBUTE TO MEL LINDQUIST, a major exhibit at SOFA Chicago,
presenting new work by major wood artists, influenced by the
pioneer Mel Lindquist, including Mark Lindquist, David
Ellsworth, Gary Stevens, Giles Gilson, Stoney Lamar, and
Howard Werner. Ken Browne directed HD filming of the
event for the short documentary, ICONS, and eventual history
film about the wood-turning/wood sculpture field. In addition
to Emmy awards, Ken's work has been recognized with a Silver
Telly Award, New York Festivals Award, and the U.S.
International Film and Video Festival Award for Creative
Excellence. Ken holds degrees from Brandeis University and
Yale University. |
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Ken Browne, (Center) with film crew,
filming Mark Lindquist (right)
during the ICONS: A TRIBUTE TO MELVIN LINDQUIST
exhibit, in Chicago, 2008.
Photo: John McFadden | Lindquist Studios 2008 |
GREGORY ANDRACKE
CINEMATOGRAPHER - NEW YORK CITY
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Gregory Andracke
has been a cinematographer for 40 years, filming award winning
documentaries, commercials and industrials, as well as
dramatic films for television. Programs that he photographed
have been nominated three times for an Academy Award and won
the Oscar twice for best documentary. He is the recipient of
six Emmy Awards for outstanding cinematography. Eastman Kodak
honored Greg’s work with the “Outstanding Photographic
Achievement Award”.
Greg’s films include the much-praised 1997 Oprah Winfery ABC
Special About Us: The Dignity of Children, the 2000 PBS Bill
Moyers’ Special On Our Own Terms, the award winning program
Amazing Grace also with Moyers, the critically acclaimed NBC
series, Crime & Punishment, the HBO Oscar-winner You Don't
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and most recently, Taxi to the
Darkside, winner of the 2007 Oscar for Best Documentary. His
diverse credits have taken him around the world: The Killing
Ground for ABC, Schwarzkopf in Vietnam: A Soldier Returns for
CBS Reports, and The Popes and Their Art, Jelly’s Last Jam,
Duke Ellington, Vladimir Horowitz, Wynton Marsalis & Kathleen
Battle and summer concerts at Tanglewood.
His flexibility in style enables him to film hard news events
for CBS 60 Minutes and PBS Frontline as well as more stylized
commercials for Hackensack Medical Center, Tyson’s Chicken,
and IBM.
His most recent dramatic film, "Eavesdrop," will be released
soon
and a trailer can be see at
http://eavesdropfilm.com
Greg was formerly a member of the National Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences and a former member of the New York
Television Academy. Also formerly a member of its Board
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TERRY MARTIN
- WRITER, COMMENTATOR - (AUSTRALIA)
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During his
first career in the theater, Australian-born Terry Martin traveled
the world working in prestigious venues such as the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, and the Paris Opera. He has worked with such
companies as La Scala Opera, Milan, the Royal Ballet, London, and
Kanze Noh Theater, Japan.
From 1980
Terry reshaped his working life, firstly as a woodturner, then as a
writer, curator and critical commentator on the field of wood art.
During the last 25 years Terry has shown his own work in 85
exhibitions of wood art in 7 countries. Venues have ranged from the
Museum of Art and Design, New York, to the most prestigious gallery
in Japan, Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo. His work is held in public and
private collections around the world,
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such as the Detroit
Institute of Art, the New York Museum of Art and Design, and the
Kinkakuji Temple Collection, Kyoto, Japan. Terry's
first book, Wood Dreaming, was published in 1995 and his most
recent, New Masters of Woodturning co-authored with Kevin Wallace,
was released in 2008. Since 1991 he has written over 200 articles
for journals and magazines in 7 countries. For 7 years he was
Editor-in-Chief of the wood art journal Turning Points, published in
Philadelphia and he has been a contributing editor to three other
journals. Terry wrote the landmark historical catalogue for the SOFA
Exhibition, Icons, in November 2008.
"It is a privilege to be involved in the Blakely Burl Tree Project,"
says Terry. "I am amazed by the Rice family's vision for the
rejuvenation of a part of the United States that means so much to
them. This project will bring a unique creative focus to their
dream. I am particularly pleased to work once more with Mark
Lindquist, a man of extraordinary vision and talent, and the team he
has gathered. As we watch this project unfold, I know we will be
part of something that has never happened before and will probably
never happen again."
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Terry Martin at the
ICONS exhibition, SOFA, Chicago, 2008
Photo: John McFadden/Lindquist Studios |
JOHN MC FADDEN
PHOTOGRAPHER - LINDQUIST STUDIOS - FLORIDA
John McFadden is
resident photographer and current Lindquist Studios assistant. John
has worked intermittently with Lindquist Studios over the past five years
on several projects, and recently John and Mark collaborated on the
photography for the catalog for the Icons tribute exhibition that was
printed in Hong Kong. Specializing in studio work and documentation
photography, John's photos were featured in Ken Browne's film documentary
of the ICONS exhibit in Chicago in 2008. John's work has been widely
published and he is known for his his steam locomotive photography.
John worked in the music industry as a sound engineer for 20 years before
coming to photography in the 1990's. |
John McFadden discusses layout of Gary Stevens' work for upcoming photo
shoot,
in the exhibit space, Chicago SOFA, 2008. Photos: Mark Lindquist |
Lindquist Studios
MARK LINDQUIST
- LINDQUIST STUDIOS
- FLORIDA
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Mark Lindquist is best known for his
significant contributions to the American Studio Woodturning /
Wood Sculpture movement that gained serious momentum during the mid-1970's.
Throughout his 40 year professional involvement as a renowned wood sculptor he has been
committed to photography and has worked semi-pro,
occasionally, over the years on special projects.
Currently he owns and operates Lindquist Studios, in Quincy,
Florida.
In the late 1970s, Mark
Lindquist was photographic assistant on the project to
duplicate the Oval Office Desk for the JFK Memorial Library in Boston, Massachusetts. He helped to photograph,
measure, and pattern the desk which was subsequently made by the renowned master
craftsman Robert Whitley of Bucks County, PA.
Lindquist is a Mac Dowell Fellow, American Craft Council
Fellow, NEA Fellow, Honorary Lifetime Member of the AAW (2010) and received the
American Association of Woodturners first POP fellowship award
2006. He has
received numerous awards and is widely recognized as an early
pioneer in his field. (http://lindquiststudios.com)
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Robert Whitley (left), and Mark Lindquist (right), circa
1978, Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC.
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Mark Lindquist
photographing at The Mac Dowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, 1980
Photo: Kathy Lindquist |
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