Filming a Documentary About An Outlawed Wine

Filming a Documentary About An Outlawed Wine

Documentary film making is spontaneous, challenging, and it keeps you on your toes. Things can happen all at the same time and if you miss something, you might have missed it for good. International film makers can also run into foreign language issues, shooting in an unfamiliar country, and not knowing the best places to film. Filming Portugal just helped with a documentary about the wine making process in Portugal and stepped into the fields of a winery to get footage of the process - from harvesting the grapes to cleaning and crushing them. Location, translation and fixer services were all key as well as doing the actual filming.

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Hamlet in Black and White
Michael Hammond Michael Hammond

Hamlet in Black and White

In cooperation with the General Arts Directorate of Portugal (dgArtes), Theater in Palm and the Contemporary Dance Company of Évora (CDCE), our lead cinematographer was thrilled to work on this dark (in more ways than one) project in Lisbon throughout the month of July 2024.

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