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One of the highlights of 2010 for me was being invited to the first ever Vimeo Festival in New York City.  As I mentioned before this was an incredible show and probably one of the best “first off” events that I have ever seen a company execute (You can read more about this in my previous blog post).

One of the biggest draws of the festival (outside of the amazing films being featured) was the amount of panels and Q&A’s between various speakers that were offered.  I was fortunate enough to be included on one of these panels with my fellow DSLR shooter from across the Atlantic, Philip Bloom.  Naturally, the topic of our conversation was DSLR cinema, but with a focus on its current strengths and weaknesses, and what the future holds for it.  The discussion was moderated by filmmaker and camera expert, David Leitner.  You can watch the panel in its entirety above.

Vimeo has also released many of the Festival’s other panels and discussions, which can be found HERE.

This should be hitting the web at the exact same time we have the back-to-back premiere all 8 final chapters of the year-long Beyond The Still contest,  live at the Sundance Film Festival .

Below you’ll find three movies.    The first is a compilation of all 8 Chapters as one final piece.   The second is the final and 8th Chapter (not preceded by the previous 7)  that was written by all 6 of the chapter winners, starring Judd Nelson, that I directed alongside DP, Joe Desalvo.

And the third – a new behind the scenes video of the Chapter 8 shoot with all of the 6 winners on set.

This has been an incredibly exciting year – and working with the 6 chapter winners on Chapter eight was the highlight of the entire experience for me.   Congratulations to them and to all of those who entered and/or followed what is being called the largest online collaborative film contest in history by Vimeo.  Grey Advertising tells me that the project has made close to 200 million impressions over the past year.

A special thanks goes to the cast, crew, the winners, The Joneses, Crewcuts NYC, Company 3 LA, and to Canon and Vimeo for everything they did to make this happen!

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I.  All Chapters 1-8 – The Final Collaborative Film – Runtime: 37 minutes.

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II. For those who have been following the entire process and want to cut straight to the conclusion– here is Chapter 8 ONLY – Runtime: 9 minutes. CLICK ON HD on the lower left of the Vimeo player TO SEE IT IN FULL 1080p and go FULL SCREEN – the streaming quality is pretty stunning!

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III. Here is a new (2nd) “Making of video” shot & edited by Chris Dowsett:

Click below to see more behind the scenes images shot by Ryan Booth from his great blog post here. I recommend you check out his post as it’s the best one I’ve read that talks to the experience the 6 chapter winners went through during the final chapter’s shoot.

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Here is a great behind the scenes video from Vimeo of the final chapter for the “Beyond The Still” contest that we shot towards the end of 2010.    We just wrapped up the final mix and titles a few days ago and we’ll be premiering the final chapter, along with all 7 other chapters, at Sundance this coming Sunday.     I look forward to sharing the final film with you this Sunday along with another behind the scenes video that we made in-house.