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Ed Says:I'm pleased to announce that last night Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football won the Slamdance Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature. The Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature went to the excellent film "Bhopali". Our sincerest congratulations to the producers of that moving and important work.Everyone at Slamdance has been incredibly supportive of Fordson. At the awards ceremony they said, "The Slamdance jury was moved by this great American story about life, liberty and the pursuit of football."The juror who presented us with the award, Adrian Belic (director of the 1999 doc Genghis Blues), was personally very vocal, supportive and complimentary of the film. My personal thanks to him for championing us all this week.Kudos, congratulations and thanks go to the production team: Director Rashid Ghazi's dogged determination to get this thing done and done right, producers Ash-har & Basma Quraishi's creative guidance, Ruth Lietman's insight providing structure to the chaos...

Ed Says:I'm at Slamdance this week. It's been really fun out here in Utah.We had a pretty full house on the first showing of Fordson and they were a really receptive audience. Very responsive -- and seemed to cue to all the right places, and then some. It was a total kick watching the audience watch the movie. Second showing was on Monday first thing (noon) with a smaller, more subdued (read: hung over) crowd.I've been getting stopped by people and complimented on the film. My friend Sue Lawson said yesterday that she had been given a list of top 5 must-see docs, and we were first on it.I'm not bragging, I'm kinda stunned. All of the other work here is so amazing. Last night without realizing, I sat next to Vilmos Zsigmond (the DP for The Deer Hunter) to watch a showing of the first feature he shot (Summer Children,...

Ed Says:Well, we're just chock full o' Fordson lately here at Motion Post. We've been accepted to the Slamdance Film Festival. One of only 18 or so films of the 5000 submitted for this year's event. Wow.Here's the announcement...Check out the Facebook fan page...And the website: fordsonthemovie.com...

AwardsA recent commercial we edited for Mothlight Pictures. The client was Memorial Hospitals Cancer treatment Center and featured cancer survivors.

LettersA recent commercial we edited for Mothlight Pictures. The client was Memorial Hospitals Cancer treatment Center and featured cancer survivors.