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The Strait Guys are coming to the Washington, DC area. I will be presenting the film in person with Strait Guy Scott Spencer, the chief project advisor of the InterContinental Railway, and co-star of the film. I'm very excited about finally getting to share the stage with Scott, who has not yet seen the film together with an audience. The whole event is happening Saturday, June 22nd at 1 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. The film is playing in the Global Peace Film Festival sidebar of the Nepal America International Film Festival. I hope to see lots

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It's a pleasure to announce that "The Presidents' Tailor" will be celebrating a double world premiere at the Jewish Film Festival Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany and at the DocEdge Film Festival in New Zealand over the coming weeks. If you're in Berlin or in Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland (or anywhere in NZ for the virtual cinema), rush out to see the film. Get your tickets through the links above. I'll be at the June 19th screening in Berlin with several members of our team. I hope to see some of you there!

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We are saddened by the news of Martin Greenfield's death today at age 95. He was a kind and generous man whose infectious smile brought warmth and happiness to everyone around him. It was a great honor and pleasure to follow Martin and his family with our camera over the past seven years. We hope our film The Presidents' Tailor pays tribute to this remarkable human. If you would like to organise a screening of the film, please contact us here. For more details about Mr. Greenfield's remarkable life, please read Alex Traub's touching obituary in the New York Times.

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Rick is the featured guest in episode two of the podcast Heart of Change, hosted by Holly Jewell. Watch or listen in on: YouTube, Spotify, Apple. In the podcast, Rick recalls his experiences making his award-winning film Forgetting Dad, and the repercussions the film continues to have on his life sixteen years after its release.

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The short film "We Are Here", which I shot in Odessa last summer and made together with Guy Dimenstein from Meet the Good Ones, is a finalist in the prestigious Smiley Charity Film Awards – the world's largest competition for films about charities and NGOs. I will be traveling to London together with Guy and his producer Mirjam to attend the award gala on March 20th at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square. In addition to the juried prizes, there is also an audience award. Please cast your vote by midnight GMT on March 12th. Thanks!

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I'm thrilled to announce that the short film the Meet the Good Ones team and I made about the Berlin charity Berlin Odessa Express is a finalist in the Geographical Better World Video Awards, hosted by the Royal Geographical Society in the UK. We would be very grateful if you would take the time to watch the 8-minute video and cast your vote for it. Voting closes at midnight GMT on February 25th. Thank you for your support!

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Leading polar cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions has invited me to screen my film The Strait Guys and tell stories about my adventures filming in Arctic Alaska and Russia on board their July 2-10 cruise to Spitsbergen (Svalbard). That’s the archipelago north of the northernmost point of Norway, way up close to the North Pole. We'll spend eight days cruising around Spitsbergen, and will even help clean up trash along the shore. Let's keep the beautiful Arctic clean! In order to make the whole thing work, I need to recruit at least seven passengers for the voyage. Sound like fun? Well come hang out

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On Thursday, January 25, 2024, I was a guest of the Keller Revue at the Brecht Haus in Berlin, where I presented excerpts from The Strait Guys and told anecdotes about my adventures shooting the film in Alaska and Russia. It was a great honor to present my work to a capacity crowd in the former home of the legendary German playwright Bertolt Brecht. The event was streamed live and can be watched here. A big thanks goes out to my colleagues who shared the stage with me, Isabel Fargo Cole and Ann Gaspe, the event organizer and moderator Martin Jankowski and