Found Object Films

The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest – trailer

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:40:42 +0000

Golden Trailer award-winning trailer for The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest a work-in-progress film about a notorious prison escape artist whose past has overshadowed alarming truths about his incarceration. This project was recently included in the LA Film Festival’s Fast Track program. For more information please contact info@foundobjectfilms.com.

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LA Film Festival selects DeFriest film for Fast Track

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:28:48 +0000

“The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest” has been accepted into the LA Film Festival Fast Track film program. Watch the trailer and learn more about this amazing story.

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Report from Haiti – Avaaz.org

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:14:41 +0000

Found Object Films produced a short film for Avaaz.org about earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

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Post-Production begins on ‘The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest’…

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:19:04 +0000

Found Object Films has begun the edit of our feature documentary, The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest. Hours and hours of footage to take shape into a rough cut in Spring 2010…

2010 begins with a new grant!

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:37:58 +0000

Found Object Films received a second major grant in December from the Vital Projects Fund to continue work on The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest. Stay tuned…

Copenhagen Dispatches for Timberland’s Earthkeeper Network

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:52:22 +0000

For the duration of the UN Conference on Climate Change, Found Object Films was sponsored by Timberland Earthkeepers to make film content for their website. Together with correspondent Olivia Zaleski, we tackled everything in our dispatches from youth activities to demonstrations to the inside the conference hall negotiating sessions.

Our piece on the demonstrations has garnered 26,000 views as of this writing, and put Timberland Earthkeeper as the #1 Sponsor Channel on YouTube for two days running, beating out Avatar and Coke, two heavily advertised underwrites.

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Here’s our “Negotiatons” piece, filmed over the second week of the Climate Change Conference.

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