The Long Awaited Moment

So the long awaited moment is about to arrive of the world, nay, Universal premier of the labor of love of many, many years. The Smithsonian Network will be airing Soul of a People this Labor of Love Day weekend (check out the trailer clicking on the gadget to the right.) 7 years in the making, 3 years in production, one year in editing and script revisions, a seemingly endless string of over-nighters in the cave, frantically digging through hundreds of hours of archival film, munching on giant pretzels, debating the cuts, killing our darlings and playing psycho ping pong barefooted at 4 in the morning while Andrea took a powernap underneath the editing console after that week's 48 marathon editing session--and that was just one mid-Spring’s Thursday night!! So in honor of this momentous mountaintop we are about peak upon, I thought it appropriate to look back at some of the highlights of the production. Advanced apologies to my friends and associates for the wild and wooly light the world will now and forever see them in.