Surreel Films Artist Duke Riley’s “Those About to Die Salute You”

Those About to Die Salute You, a battle on water wielded with baguette swords and watermelon cannon balls by New York’s art dignitaries. Various types of vessels have been designed and constructed by artist provocateur Duke Riley and his collaborators: the galleons, some made of reeds harvested in the park, were used to stage a citywide battle of the art museums in which representatives from the Queens Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and El Museo del Barrio battled before a toga-clad crowd of frenzied onlookers.

Kenny Scharf’s Cosmic Cavern A Go-Go

Surreel’s there to film artist Kenny Scharf’s incredible Go-Go. No one could escape Kenny’s DayGlo paintbrush.

Matthew Modine’s “Cowboy” is #1!

Congratulations to Matthew for his film “Cowboy” premiering on Atom Films and currently the number one most watched video! Surreel provided post-production services with editor Giacomo Ambrosini. Special thanks to our friend Megan O’Neill for helping to put this together.

Society of American Magicians – 100th Salute to Magic

The 100th Salute to Magic

Surreel filmed with six cameras the 100th Salute to Magic for the Society of American Magicians at the Manhattan Center. Using iChat we were able to provide a live projected feed for the audience from David Copperfield in Las Vegas. The Salute to Magic is the longest running annual show in U.S. history! The performers inlcuded David Ben, Mike Caveney, Paul Daniels, The Pendragons, The Amazing Randi, Margaret Steele, Johnny and Pam Thompson.

Congratulations to Metallica!

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lars Ulrich enjoying a delivery at the House of Blues after Metallica’s induction into the Hall of Fame this Saturday Night. Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers gave a moving induction speech honoring the band. Metallica tore up the stage joined by bassist Jason Newstead.

SURREEL & Megaphone-Media Win Telly Award for NCMEC

Surreel along with our client Megaphone-Media win a 30th Annual Telly Award for  the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children public service announcement.

Flav Celebrates 50th Birthday

Surreel was at BB Kings in New York to film Flavor Flav performing with Public Enemy as he celebrated his 50th birthday at the stroke of midnight.  Ice-T , Grand Master Melle Mel and boxing trainer/commentator Emmanuelle Stewart were also on stage to celebrate. As a special request, Ice-T performed “Six In The Morning” as Flavor Flav played the drums.

Director David Hausen along with cameraman Justin Stanley filmed the show as well as behind-the-scenes footage for Surreel’s on-going Flavor Flav documentary which has been in production for over five years.

Surreel’s Haring Doc Receives IDA Fiscal Sponsorship

Surreel’s Keith Haring: Untitled Documentary has just been awarded a fiscal sponsorship by the International Documentary Association (IDA). IDA is a well-respected documentary film organization based in Los Angeles, California. The  IDA allows film makers to be associated with a non-profit organization through fiscal sponsorship this means that we will be able to accept tax deductible donations to our film through IDA. It also will give the project more exposure through IDA’s sponsored projects webpage.

• Individuals may now receive a tax deduction for donating to Keith Haring: Untitled Documentary
• SURREEL is able to work with Foundations who require a 501(c)(3) non-profit status
• SURREEL can now receive grants from entities requiring a 501(c)(3) non-profit status

PSA for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Surreel along with our client Megaphone Media recently produced a new PSA for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Directed by David Hausen the spot features Auston Harris, a seventeen year old race car driver.

Obama Wins!

Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice-President-Elect Joseph Biden. Thank you for running a smart and decent campaign.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Untitled Documentary Rocks “The Other Venice Film Festival”

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Untitled Documentary screened to a full house at this years festival. “The Other Venice Film Festival” is the only Solar Powered film festival on the planet, the founding venue at The Electric Lodge is a solar powered theater.

HATCHfest – Bozeman, Montana

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Untitled Documentary was part of HATCHfest 2008. Director David Hausen participated as a mentor and panelist.

HATCH is a year round non-profit organization, designed to develop and foster the growth of creative minds in various industries through mentorship, exposure, and networking. We highly recommend HATCHfest as a rare opportunity to be part of a festival that has a mission of giving back. This is a fantastic festival with great organizers in a fun town.

Surreel and Springboard Win Two 2008 Telly Awards

Surreel along with our client Springboard have won Telly Awards in two categories, Cinematography and Political for our production “Why I’m a Democrat” produced for The Campaign for California’s Future.

Doc’n'Roll presented by HBO

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Untitled Documentary screens in Transylvania as part of Doc’n'Roll presented by HBO. Other films included in the section are Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light, Julian Schnabel’s Lou Reed: Berlin and Julien Temple’s Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. http://www.tiff.ro/ro/node/1245

Matthew Modine’s “Cowboy”

Recently in Surreel’s Hollywood office Giacomo Ambrosini edited for actor/writer/director Matthew Modine the short film “Cowboy”, which debuted at CineVegas and was sold to Viacom’s Atom Films.