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Nello Olivo Vineyards – A Beautiful Night

Nello Olivo Vineyards – A Beautiful Night

This will be a departure from most of the posts to this site in that this is a personal entry. I’ve posted the news story about Nello Olivo and his vineyard Cameron Park in Placerville and his incredible success with his wines, winning over 25 awards in 2010 alone. This is a remarkable achievement because last year was only the first year they were put on the market. Bonnie and I have known the Olivos, Nello and D’Anica for over ten years from mutual film friends. We were up at their property, over twenty acres, when he was putting...

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Short Course On One-Man Filmmaking – Starting Monday Night

Short Course On One-Man Filmmaking – Starting Monday Night

It’s short notice but I am teaching an Introduction to Naked Filmmaking at Access Sacramento for my good friend Ron Cooper. Three nights, three hours each night. I will be discussing how to make dramatic films with scripts and actors, documentary work and a bit of my brand of TV news style. The common thread through all of these being how to do it as a one-person filmmaker where you come up with the ideas, then write a script and shoot them and record audio by yourself. Or, in the case of documentary, shoot and record audio and then...

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