Duration: 6’49″

The WRIGHT Institute is a unique university located near UC Berkeley. They teach a Psychology Doctorate Program renowned around the country for its hands-on approach. From the start of the 1st years, students are placed into local agencies, jails, schools, health clinics and begin practicing alongside experienced clinical psychologists, and professors. The institute has a social agenda where all the patients the students follow are populations that would never have access to such therapy otherwise, even though they might be the ones who need it the most. Here is a short film we produced for them in the Madnomad Films style: a direct look at the program from the perspective of those who study and teach there. It shows what the Institute really is.

Duration: 4’46″

This is part of a series we produced for John Avalos who is running for Mayor in San Francisco. John is a very sincere person, and that surprised us for a politician. But after a few other videos, we got to know him and understood that the documentary form was the right approach to make a video about him for his campaign.

Music by Gustavo Santaolalla: Apertura. Black & White Title Picture by Steve Rhodes

JOHN AVALOS has been endorsed by a landslide number of large local organizations in San Francisco. Read about their endorsement to understand why he is the right candidate to lead San Francisco today.

San Francisco Democratic Party #1
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club #1
The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition #1
SEIU Local 1021 #1
SEIU United Service Workers West #2
Coleman Action Fund for Children #1
United Educators of San Francisco (UESF)
The American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 #1
The San Francisco Tenants Union #1
California Nurses Association #3
San Francisco Arts Democratic Club #2
DogPAC of San Francisco #1
The Grassroots Democratic Club #1
The League of Young Voters #1
The San Francisco Green Party #2
The Sierra Club #2
The League of Conservation Voters #3
Fillmore/Lower Fillmore Neighborhood Association #3
The Bernal Heights Neighborhood Association #1
Richmond District Democratic Club #2
Central City Democrats #1
San Francisco Tomorrow #2
SF Rising Action Fund #1
The SF Latino Democratic Club #1
The San Francisco Bay Guardian #1
The San Francisco Bayview #1

Duration: 2’23″

Madnomad Films has been closely working with John Avalos, who is running for Mayor for San Francisco Municipal Nov 2011. We made this video in a week and once it was published it went viral. From the mouth of board members of the San Francisco Bike Coalition, the video made them endorse John Avalos as their #1 candidate. It actually made them change their mind!! That’s a successful video.

Duration: 2’28″

Alexis Laurent latest artworks are a mix of live plants and metal he calls “Living Sculptures”. DANDELIONS was presented at ArtPad SF in May 2011 at the Phoenix Hotel local contemporary art show.

Duration: 5’08″

Alexis Laurent latest artworks are a mix a live plants, and metal/wood elements. He calls them “Living Sculptures”.

Duration: 3’20″

Alemany Farm is located on the south side of Bernal Heights in San Francisco. It is the largest food production site in the city. The farm is completely volunteer run and the work is done by whoever shows up on the bi-weekly word days. It donates 1/2 of its food production to families of the Alemany housing project with which they share their eastern fence. The farm is a tool to educate anyone interested in organic food production, and they run many workshops. It has been running since 1995, under the prior caretakers SLUG, and now since 2005 with Friends of Alemany Farm. The video was made to help them raise funds and apply for grants. Please support them, so they can continue.

Duration: 42″

Blue Turtle is a new company, still in its infancy and developing its model, that is promoting new ways to avoid plastic usage at the retail business level. They are beginning a new campaign in San Franscico, CA to help businesses understand how they can reduce their expenses significantly, with little efforts and in an incremental way. The campaign will use this “Don’t Suck” slogan, and video for promotion purposes. The video was written, filmed, and edited in 5 days. This is using the Canon 5D Mark II.

Duration: 4’00

Alexis Laurent is a contemporary art sculptor based in San Francisco. In 2009 after years of working in 2D in his paintings, he went 3D, opened a brand new gallery that he also uses as his studio. He asked me to follow him over a year, and I produced a portrait of him, you can find here. Then he was invited to exhibit solo in a 1800m2 (18,000 sqft) space. In 3 months he produced 7 new large scale sculptures, with a theme relating metal to plants. Here’s a video a his show in Houston, TX at in November 2010.

Duration of trailer: 6′ (Film duration: 75′)

After 4 years of work, Dust & Illusions is completed. The film explores 30 years of history of Burning Man all the way back to the late 70s into the origins of the event, with never seen footage of the Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society, and the early burns on San Francisco Baker beach. Twenty interviewees expose their views about the history of the event, and its evolution into a large festival. The film is the first to present Burning Man with a critical eye (not a negative one) and analyze how successful the event really is in its intention of recreating community and bringing art back to “ordinary” people. Watch it and be the judge, as the film doesn’t try to draw conclusions one way or the other.

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Duration: 5’37″

Alexis Laurentis a contemporary art sculptor based in San Francisco. In 2009 after years of working in 2D in his paintings, he went 3D, opened a brand new gallery that he also uses as his studio. Then he was invited to exhibit solo in a 1800m2 (18,000 sqft) space. In 3 months he produced 7 new large scale sculptures, with a theme relating metal to plants. Here’s a video of his November 2010 show in Houston, TX.