Browsing Archive: September, 2011

A ride to remember… and a film to edit

Posted by Greg Campell on Monday, September 19, 2011,

Guest post by Michael de Yoanna

If you told me I’d be riding a bicycle through a tropical storm in order to complete a film this summer, I would have said you were crazy. The film’s theme involves bicycling and how it helps veterans recover from their wounds. But attempting to be the director from the saddle of a bike, that’s another thing.

When my partner Greg Campbell and I began shooting this yet-to-be-named documentary film in late May, during a week-long veterans’ road cycle r...


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Lessons from 911 miles — on a bicycle

Posted by Greg Campell on Saturday, September 17, 2011,

It’s going to be hard to describe what I’ve been up to for the past two weeks, as I sit here typing this in the back of a rented van filled with expensive film gear in the middle of “downtown” Bloomery, West Virginia. Downtown is literally a wide spot in a long road that winds through wooded hollows between Maryland and Virginia, consisting of a general store and a post office. Not surprisingly, there is no cell phone service here and no Internet, but I managed to pinch some WiFi off ...
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