Adam Weiss Joins the Filmmaking Team for Global Documentary Los Angeles, CA: The global documentary feature 8 Billion Angels has contracted with composer Adam Weiss to produce the score for the film. Weiss’ past work has earned him awards for his film soundtracks and original scores for theatrical productions including back-to-back Kennedy Center CAPPIES nominations.…
Is Earth Day Off Its Axis? Earth Day is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. It is a global event with more than an estimated 1 billion people in 192 countries raising awareness of environmental issues. But would the founder of Earth Day be happy at the current state of this worldwide…
In August 2017, the 8 Billion Angels crew traveled to Durham, North Carolina to speak with Professor Stuart L. Pimm, whose name and face have been featured in several critically-acclaimed environmental documentaries, such as Racing Extinction and Eleventh Hour. He is often quoted by luminaries such as Al Gore. In fact, when you hear Gore…
At the the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award Ceremony this year, one film thought to be an odds-on favorite was conspicuously absent. Despite its big budget, bankable star and blockbuster marketing campaign, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” ended a disappointing run as the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 2006 original film, “An…
It is said that there are only six stories. Maybe twelve. It’s all been done before. And we have seen it all. What do you do to keep it fresh? Is there anything that you can do to subvert the process to keep it original? When planning this film, I knew that we had to…
As soon as I stepped off the plane, I tasted acrid air thick with smoke from burning trash, smoldering rice fields, charcoal cooking fires, and exhaust from the legion of motorbikes, tuk tuks and trucks clogging the streets of Delhi, India. Delhi is considered the 3rd largest city (behind Tokyo-Yakahama and Jakarta) in the world…