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Mind Over Mania @MSNBC & RAMPART @AFI Fest
November 4th, 2011
Mind Over Mania on MSNBC
This Sunday Nov 6th at 10 pm MSNBC will be airing Mind Over Mania, about a group of women in therapy as they delve into the mind control they were subjected to. This is the result of an effort over the last year and half to document the ever growing numbers of high demand groups and new religious movements in America. EPd by Tom Cappello, Michael Lucker & Vasco Nunes, produced by Alana Goldstein and helmed by Tom’s Crazy Legs Productions along with Lusitan.
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RAMPART will be screening this Saturday in Los Angeles at 10pm during AFI Fest (tickets link)
It was a pleasure to frame for Bobby Bukowsky and Oren Moverman, and work with the cast and crew family that formed during the shooting in my corner (and street) of Los Angeles: LAPDs Rampart Division. This will be the film’s first public screening in Los Angeles after its premiere at Toronto, it will be released shortly thereafter by Millennium Entertainment.
 Bobby, Ben & Oren during shotlisting sessions
There is a cast and crew screening on Sunday at the DGA, unfortunateluy won’t be at this longitude to make it, have fun!
a short clip link and here is a recent review by Time Out London:
Author James Ellroy and ‘The Messenger’ director Oren Moverman deconstruct the police procedural in this stunning, idiosyncratic anti-thriller. Woody Harrelson plays ‘Date Rape’ Dave Brown, a bulldog beat cop working in LA’s infamous Rampart division during the long-running late ’90s corruption scandal which would ultimately tear the department apart. Brown is the ultimate cinematic expression of Ellroy’s archetypal hero: a conflicted, violent, self-loathing, womanising, borderline racist murderer with a razor wit, an encyclopedic brain and a dominant protective instinct towards the (many) women in his life.
Harrelson’s performance is astonishing, and he’s backed by a gallery of terrific supporting players, notably Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon as his long-suffering ex-wives, Ben Foster as a down-and-out veteran and Ned Beatty as a seemingly avuncular old-school ex-cop. But it’s Moverman’s direction which drives the film, employing an experimental kaleidoscope of off-beam angles, vibrating neon and a stunning use of music and sound design. The result is a disorienting, dazzling and wholly unique experience, a film to file alongside the great LA noir masterpieces of the 1970s.
Jan 2011 – Beautiful Faces at Gea Gonzalez, DF, Mexico & The Last Soviet at Hammer
January 30th, 2011
Jan 22nd, 2011 Production begins for Beautiful Faces
Directed and produced by Russell Martin and produced by Alvera de Leon, with the generous support of the Mexican Secretaría de Salud and the World Craniofacial Foundation. Mat Denis and I joined Russell and Alvera to the Gea Gonzalez in Tlalpan, DF, Mexico to witness and document one of the most dinamic health care stories of the last half century in person.
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Jan 30th 2011 Opening at Hammer Museum in West Los Angeles - The Last Soviet
Presents THE LAST SOVIET part of ’All of This and Nothing‘ highlighting LA artists biennially.
The Last Soviet – HD Video Projection, Color with Sound. 10 min, 44 sec. Hadley Martin Fisher Collection, New York. Comissioned by Arnolfini, Britol, Canden Arts Center, London. fine art – Kerry Tribe, cinematography – Vasco Nunes
New Year Greeting
January 1st, 2011
New Year’s Greetings!
Wishing you a prosperous, creative and healthy 2011.
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2010 started with H.M. being well received by the critics and patrons at the Whitney Biennial 2010 while We Live In Public had its theatrical release at the Egyptian, after joining DIG! into the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
MTV decided to re-launch their logo after 35 years. Two shoots for director Evan Silver in the East and West Coast became the canvas for the new logo across the broadcast as well as before the world, presented at the UN during Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit.
The Tonight Show went through some ups and downs, when Leno returned the New Credit Sequence was shot with new DSLR technology for NBC by Wut It Is.
Mirror Films via Paul Papanek produced the on the move spots for US Cellular directed by Doug Walker, while director Jason Roth defined some looks for MTV2.
Some work for Walmart this year was eclectic. In Mexico to direct/dp for Artur Spiegel’s 7ate9 to tell the ‘Secret life of Spinach‘ a Walmart project, and later joined producer Jessica Jimenez of Lunchbox, shooting for Rik Reinholsen some projects like Nelly Furtado, and directing in Puerto Rico for Juanes.
This fall was mostly dedicated to Oren Moverman’s Rampart, working for DP Bobby Bukowski operating the B camera for this double Arri Alexa feature. The cast and crew assembled by producers Lila Yacoub, Ben Foster, Mike DeFranco, Lawrence Ingle, Ken Kao and Clark Peterson was incredibly kind and versatile.
Documentary form continues to manifest itself in collaborative efforts, this time executive producing and shooting with CLP‘s Tom Cappello, Alana Goldstein, and Michael Lucker on a documentary series for a news outlet, it has a green light for the pilot but just now getting going. Other narrative and documentary projects dot the horizon.
The best news of the year, beyond Joaquim’s wonderful 7 years on earth, was that Portugal was able to recover some face after the world cup by shutting out Spain 4-0 (some might say 5-0) recently. It is nice to be the first to give the world champs a little dose of humility after their spectacular showing at the Cup in South Africa. I just hope that both countries won’t need a EU bailout.
HAPPY NEW 2011!
2010 – MTV Logo Relaunch – Youth Campaign
May 29th, 2010
MTV YOUTH CAMPAIGN launches new MTV Logo.
MTV has re-launched its Logo after more than 3 decades. To complete the new branding graphic element, Evan Silver asked Vasco Nunes to join him east coast to shoot Generation Youth, slated as MTVs Upfront, but in fact the lauching pad for the new Logo in March 2010. Press coverage for Youth was given wide exposure on Shots, Creativity and AdWorld, as well as before the world, presented at the UN during Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit. As programming moved into the summer, a SUMMER IMAGE version of Generation Youth was photographed in two days in the Southern California Coast, April 2010. Captured in multiple formats (Super 16, HD, DSLR HD), the material will compliment the new logo in its summer time dress:
(West Coast 2010, launch Memorial Weekend 2010)
 Collage Montage
 Sports Montage
 Friends Montage
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Generation Youth Campaign (East Coast 2009, launch March 2010)
  
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MTV Generation Youth Campagin, Upfront, & Summer Image Campaign
Directed by Evan Silver
Production by Jessica Borovay & Jeremy Hammond
Cinematography by Vasco Nunes
MTV Generation Youth Campaign East Coast Coverage
Advert Log, Digital Buyologie, Shots, Coloribus, Advert Lover, Existing Visual
3D Workshop at 3ality
March 10th, 2010
Nunes completed a weeklong 3D workshop at 3ality in early 2010.
The focused and in depth workshop covered the major areas of 3D theory, film production, camera rig configuration, stereographic parameters, and lots of examples of what not to do. 3ality is at the forefront of this technology, it was a priviledge to be in the first class of its kind at their facility, before the ICG Local 600 series of 3 day workshops took hold. The group was composed of Local 600 members in all categories, a Sony Engineering expert, an Oscar winner for Visual Effects, and lead by the experienced core of 3ality’s hands on personel.
Winter 2010 – HM at Whitney Biennial
February 28th, 2010
The Whitney Biennial 2010 opened yesterday, where the art film H.M. by artist Kerry Tribe and photographed by Nunes has been curated to appear at the prestigious art event.
Continue reading Winter 2010 – HM at Whitney Biennial
Winter 2010 – The Tonight Show Credit Sequence
February 28th, 2010
The Tonight Show placed the responsibility of the new Credit Open Sequence upon the return of Jay Leno to Production/Post/Graphics house Wut It Is and Production Company Mirror Films of delivering several versions of the open, with the first series of plates photographed over a 3 day period in Los Angeles in February, and lensed by Vasco Nunes. VIDEO LINK
Continue reading Winter 2010 – The Tonight Show Credit Sequence
Winter 2010 – We Live In Public at Egyptian
February 26th, 2010
This film Nunes worked as a Cinematographer and Co-producer has done its rounds. After winning the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2009 (the second one for Interloper Films LLC’s Vasco Nunes & Ondi Timoner), a theatrical run, and also joining DIG! to be part of the Permanent Collection of the MoMA in NYC, it is now available online and on DVD.
Continue reading Winter 2010 – We Live In Public at Egyptian
Winter 2010 – Rhapsody, MTV & Paramount
February 22nd, 2010
RHAPSODY Music Player Spot
‘Dave – Bike – Seattle’ - Rhapsody
 
Brennan Stasiewicz had collaborated with Vasco Nunes for a Pepsi / Rock Band Spot in NYC in 2009. Stasiewicz was charged with capturing the influence of Rhapsody Music Service of two distinct users. Nunes used a combination of HD cameras,including some work with the Canon 7D, on location in Seattle and Pittsburgh, for two stories each user – day in the life off, and portrait spots (total of 4 spots, 2 per city)
Continue reading Winter 2010 – Rhapsody, MTV & Paramount
2009 – Nunes boards the Lynx – Sails Transpac Ocean Yacht Race
June 29th, 2009
LYNX Sails the 2009 TRANSPACIFIC YACHT RACE
Nunes boarded the Lynx to across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii from Long Beach during the Transpac Race 09′. Chris Woods was seeking a filmmaker to fill the one bunk documenting mission of this ocean crossing.
Between California and Hawaii, the Lynx Crew encountered submarines, bioluminescence, and some high pressure slow times, some shaffing of lines, and plenty of sail changes. After 18 days at sea, it arrived at Diamond Head, to a raucus crowd.
The 122-foot square topsail schooner Lynx sailed into Rainbow Harbor, Long Beach on June 17, 2009 and is on display prior to the start of the 2009 Transpacific Yacht Race. June 29th is the start line of the 2,225 mile race to Honolulu.
“Sailing aboard this sleek, powerful schooner will bring an exciting new dimension to racing across the Pacific,” said Jeffrey Woods, Director of Operations. “We will match the traditional strength of Lynx against the technology and speed of 21st century sailing machines such as the 100 foot Alfa Romeo, a Reichel Pugh design some call ‘the fastest yacht in the world”.“Of course we can’t compete boat for boat with Alfa Romeo, but on corrected time we just might surprise the fleet”.
Lynx participation in the 2009 Transpac is a symbolic gesture of honor to the schooner yacht Lurline and to all the wooden hull vessels that still sail the seas today preserving maritime history. Alfa Romeo went on to beat all time records at this race, they raced it in less than 6 days. Lynx won its Tall Ship category, and was not last trough the finish line with 18 days at sea.
 
 
America’s Privateer, Lynx, a 122-foot square topsail schooner, travels 7,000 nautical miles each year to ports along the West Coast and Hawaii, serving as a living history museum and classroom for the study of early maritime history and its role in establishing America’s freedom, as well as earth, life and physical science.
Lynx
Transpac Ocean Yacht Race
2008-09 – Meet Monica Velour, Jessica Simpson & VIACOM
January 29th, 2009
Meet Monica Velour – the Feature staring Kim Katrall, and directed by Keith Bearden has been getting great reviews since the film premiered at Tribeca. Vasco Nunes joined DP Masanobu Takayanagi to fullfill 2nd Unit requirements for the film, and operate B Camera in Michigan.
In the comedy, Kim Catrall plays an ex porn star who is now a single mother, interacts with her fan and protector, played by Dustin Ingram.
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Jessica Simpson Spring 09 Collection - Mike Parry brought Vasco Nunes to the California Desert to help gather material for Jessica Simpson’s Collection Spring Launch.
The combination Photo/Motion shoot was directed by Brett Ratner, and produced by the Camuto Group.
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VIACOM projects completed:
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MTV Woodie Awards 2008 Open - A fun shoot in NYC with two debate teams going at each other that would open the Woodie Awards of 2008.
Directed by Barry Flanagan & Produced by Sheree Su
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Pepsi-RockBand-MTV Music Awards – Comedic spots on DIY Music Videos
Directed by Brennan Stasiewicz & Produced by Veronica Balta
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Sonic & The Hills Promo - A funny script for The Hills enthusiasts
Directed by Soo Hyun & Produced by Kris Walter
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Nikon Coolpix Spot – Shot at the MTVs VMAs
Directed by Soo Hyun & Produced by Kris Walter
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Rhapsody Ibiza Spot – Hipster party scene in Williamsburg, NYC, is the central character of this Ibiza player story.
Directed by Soo Hyun & Produced by Jessica Borovay
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CMT – Outsider’s Inn Promo - New show on CMT with Carney Wilson, Bobby Brown & Maureen McCormick.
Directed my Lisa Bolton & Produced by Diane Castrup
Sundance 2009 – WLIP Winner of Grand Jury Prize
January 28th, 2009
We Live In Public won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, it is the second such award for Nunes & Timoner.
Congratulations to all that worked on the film.
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, visionary Josh Harris. He documented his tumultuous life, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Josh Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web” through the infamous dot.com boom of the 1990’s, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network and created his vision of the future, an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the millennium. He proved how in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price to pay for living in public.
ICG magazine article
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING TIMES
Mon. Jan 19 6:00 PM
Temple Theater, Park City
Tue. Jan 20 11:30 AM
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Tue. Jan 20 7:30 PM
Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC
Thu. Jan 22 6:00 PM
Screening Room, Sundance Resort
Fri. Jan 23 9:00 AM
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
Sat. Jan 24 2:30 PM
Holiday Village Cinema III, Park City
2008 – MTV’s On Air Promos – 52 Bands
December 19th, 2008
MTV’s On Air Promos – 52 Bands Campaign
This Campaign showcased an artist every week on MTV as the artist of the Week. The shoots spanned the globe, with numerous music video visuals, skits, and content on the artists.
Nunes completed 9 of these projects. It started under the direction of Soo Hyun Chung, with whom Nunes had shot some spots for MTV on Wolfmother and the VMAs.
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M.I.A. – Shot in Los Angeles, Downtown, Hollywood, and Inland Empire
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SANTOGOLD – Shot in New York, Coney Island
Directed by Soo Hyun Chung – Produced by Kris Walters
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YELLE - Shot on the Streets of Paris, EMI, and the Love Hotel in Montmatre
Well versed in style and camera variety – Yelle was a great shoot in Paris.
Directed by Soo Hyun Chung, Produced by Nico Betrancourt
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PADDY CASEY – Shot in Ireland, Grouse Lodge and Dublin
An eclectic shoot at Grouse Lodge and Dublin’s Doors.
Direction by Jason Roth, Production by Kris Walters
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LOCKSLEY – Shot in Washington DC at the White House, Lincoln memorial, and Congress
4 masked impersonators frolic with the band at the national monuments
Directed by Jason Roth and Produced by Kris Walter’s
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SARA BAIRELLES – Shot in Los Angeles, Marina Del Rey
Sara kept her voice perfect throughout the shoot all day by the Pacific’s shore.
Directed by Natalie and Armand Prisco / Prod. Lindsay Nowak
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SHWAYZE – Shot in Los Angeles, Hollywood and Palisades
Shwayze and Cisco were amiable to a number of concepts for a new ‘video’…
Directed by Eric Eckleman, Production by Sheree Shu
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The Gossip – Shot in Los Angeles, The Smell and East Side
Director – Soo Hyun Chung
2008 Lyle Lovett & Its Not Big Its Large
September 17th, 2008
This Fall of 2008, Lyle Lovett releases his latest album It’s Not Big, It’s Large, a deluxe set includes a feature length DVD that weaves studio and live versions of key tracks into a documentary that chronicles the album’s artistic gestation and recording sessions.
Lyle Lovett and Nunes directed the documentary, which Nunes photographing while producing alongside Lyle and April Kimble. The Feature breaks into 6 sections, each featuring a track, and each with a very different approach to the story structure, and visual treatment. Mostly verite of the album, with some film and video sections while on the road and on location with Lyle Lovett.
Other documentations and collaborations with Lyle followed, including the Storytellers concert in RedWood City, and a couple of shows in Texas, and the Natural Forces made in 2009.
Lyle Lovett
Sundance 2008 – Anvil & American Teen
January 28th, 2008
Nunes returned to Sundance in 2008, after Recycle‘s programming in 2005′s edition, to attend screenings of two films he had done some additional cinematography for Anvil and American Teen.
ANVIL – The Story of Anvil
Again thanks to Mat Denis, who earlier sparked a collaboration of thousands of feet of film with David Lee Roth, who in this case referred Nunes to Sacha Gervasi and Chris Soos. Soon Nunes was shooting Slash, Lemmy, and Lars Ulrich for inclusion into the project.
- Winner Best Documentary at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles
- Winner of Silver Hugo At Docfest, and Critics Choice by the Broadcast Film Critics Association
- Winner Audience Award at Los Angeles Film Festival and at Sydney International Film Festival
- Best Film at Calgary International Film Festival and at the Galway Film Festival
In North America, the film was released on DVD on October 6, 2009. Distribution was handled by Fontana Distribution on behalf of VH1. The film has received praise and high acclaim in many reviews, receiving a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The New York Times called it “possibly the greatest film yet made about rock and roll”, back in 2004 it said DIG! would surely be the cornerstone of any university curriculum on rock stardom. These films both dig deep into the passion of music.
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AMERICAN TEEN
Jordan Roberts brought Nunes to collaborate with Nanette Burnstein (The Kid Stays in the Pictures). The experience was stock full of debauchery in Baja Mexico, and Elvis’ in Indiana. Burnstein went on to win best director award at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Winner Best Director at Sundance 2008 – Nannette Burnstein
- Wide release by Paramount Vantage
2008 – International Documentary Work
January 1st, 2008
2008 took Nunes on several projects to distant international locations:
MTV – EXILED
The show is produced by Left Right, where Ken Druckerman lured Nunes given the many visual projects, such as This American Life, that he has produced.
 
Nunes joined director Bengt Anderson to India and Norway, seeing american teenagers face remote conditions and customs. Nunes was lucky to not have to face volcanic eruptions in Vanuatu but did have to bail off a snowmobile capsizing in the harsh topography of a snow packed fjord. The challenge was deftly handled by the hands of experienced production crews that brought the stories back in one piece.
Ganvik, NORWAY – Rain Deer Migration in Arctic Circle
The Migration took place within very specific time and physical conditions within the Artic Circle.
  
Working with local Samy people, the production created a base camp by the peninsula entrance, where the Rain Deer would be driven from hundreds of miles around onto their summer feeding grounds, 700 miles south of the North Pole.
A crash the day of the main push of the migration could have turned to the worse if not for quick reactions to bail.
  
Nunes and Turgleder‘s Thomas Nielsen had no communication to the outside world, but the tripod anchored to the rear of the snowmobile prevented injury and loosing the sled.
With a new viewfinder but the loss of the mattebox, we continued to capture the beauty of the migration.
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Begur, INDIA – Begur’s Wild Honey Gathering Tribe in Kerala
 
Kerala Province has some of the most green luscious sections of India, rich in biodiversity. The village of Begur welcomed us to their elephant protected shelters, and gathered a 6 foot square wild honeycomb for our shoot. The sight of wild elephant’s in the range within the Wayanard’s Elephant Sanctuary will awaken anyone to the fragile balance of Earth. Begur Villager’s are good stewards/hosts to the resources they share within this protected environment.
The team was willing to detour for hours and visit Kappa Beach, where in 1498 Vasco da Gama landed.
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T-WORD
Rod Weiner & partner Bosco had began to explore new themes in terrorism, and recruted Nunes to join them in Northern Ireland for a week of production shooting and interviewing across Ireland’s most charged towns. During this time, Ian Paisley, head of the political and religious unionist movement, stepped down after more than 30 years in power. The Murals of Belfast’s Falls and Shankhill Roads remain.
Albeit this famous mural was to be repainted that week.
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Rob & Big
Jeff Tremaine, with whom Nunes had collaborated with on some nintendo spots with wildboyz Chris Pontius and Steve-O – who was practically attacked by a lion on set which is another story - brought Nunes to meet with Ruben Fleisher, and capture the pilot episodes of the Rob & Big Show. The show was greenlit, and went on to be a big hit for MTV.
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GREENHOUSE
Erica Forstadt and Adam Pinkus reached to Nunes to work on the first two pilot episodes of Mario Van Peebles’ Greenhouse.
An opportunity to work with Melvin Van Peebles is always dynamic. The episodes went on to greenlight the project for HD Broadcast.
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2007 – Nimrod Nation Broadcast & Peabody Award
November 16th, 2007
On 11/26/07, Sundance Channel premiered NIMROD NATION, a new 8-part series on the Sundance Channel photographed by Vasco Nunes, Paul Mailman and Wolfgang Held. The project was created by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in Pictures), with numerous talented field directors like Todd Lubin and Erica Forstadt.
The Series was announced to receive a Peabody Award in June 16th of 2008, recognizing distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by the oldest, most prestigious honor in electronic media. UGA’s Peabody Award Press Release: ”The sweet, sensitive ‘Nimrod Nation’ received a Peabody. This beautifully shot, eight-part documentary series from Sundance Channel takes viewers into the heart of a small Michigan town.”‘
Nimrod Nation profiles rural Watersmeet, Michigan, where everyone follows the progress of the local high-school basketball team – the Nimrods. More a portrait of a small American town than a conventional sports documentary, it sympathetically observes life and conversation in the local coffee shops, hunting lodges and locker rooms as the long, cold basketball season unfolds.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/series/nimrod_nation
http://www.sundancechannel.com/nimrodnation
2007 Planet B Boy
April 26th, 2007
Planet B Boy recounts the life of Beat Boys (the actual term for what is commonly know as breakdance) and Hip Hop Culture in 2005 as 5 crews head to the Battle of the Year in Germany. The project, photographed on location around the world, is a testament to the impact of Hip Hop Culture worldwide at its true core, as the dancers prepare at home turf to then battle in the world stage. The insights into human soul & body are at once universal and unique.
After originally making its debut on April 26, 2007 at the Tribeca Film Festival, Planet B-Boy has received great critic reviews, currently has a 89% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, and is prominently displayed in current Netflix national spots. It was released in theaters in the United States on March 21, 2008, broadcast on MTV, and went to dvd November 11, 2008. The film won a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Director – Benson Lee
DP – Vasco Nunes
Sound & B Cam – Mike Zandlo
Producers – Amy Lo, Benson Lee
Co-Producer – Thomas Hergenrother
Original Music – Woody Pak
Planet B- Boy – Website
Planet B-Boy – IMDB
Planet B-Boy at Rotten Tomatoes
The New York Times Review
Variety Review - “ high-energy package, but mercifully stop short of the excess visual/editorial meddling that so often reduces dance to frenetically intercut, isolated body parts. Here, the full body in motion is always in frame, allowing viewers to fully appreciate the awesome moves.”
2007 Join Us
January 1st, 2007
JOIN US
Using an intimate verité style, Timoner and Nunes dove deep to follow four families who had just left a controlling and abusive church in South Carolina that later come to realize that they had been members of a cult.
The film documents them intimately as they enter the only accredited live-in cult treatment facility in the world. As they emerge from the safety of the treatment facility, they return to their homes to bring justice for the physical, emotional and financial abuse of their Pastor, and try to rebuild a “normal” life. Realizing the extent to which they have given up their individuality and personal beliefs in the church, and the abuse caused upon their children, the subjects experience an emotional turmoil of self-doubt, anger, guilt and desperation. The film also gives voice to the cult leader and his wife, as they struggle to cope with the “betrayal” of their congregation. Join Us puts a human face to the cult problem, a significant issue that can affect anyone.
Initially Timoner & Jared Tobman were exploring a reality show idea at a Raelean camp in Canada. But once Wellspring Retreat and Rocky Mountain Church Members were opened to documentation the project became a feature narrative about the cult problem. It became a passion project for Nunes. who along with Timoner and Tobman formed 3rd Floor LLC in 2005. Shooting took place in the US and Spain, from 2005-2007. The project was ultimately funded by Nunes & Timoner in turbulent fashion, while Tim Rush helmed the editorial department. The film was released in 2007 at the LAFF. The Film was broadcast on Sundance Channel, and is in wide release on DVD without proper complience by Timoner. Albeit it had very limited success with critics and audiences, its festival run included a Jury Prize from the Sidewalk Film Festival in 2007.
    
2006 Lollapalooza
August 10th, 2006
LOLLAPALOOZA - August 4, 2006 – August 6, 2006 - Grant Park, Chicago
C3 – know in 2006 as Capital Sport & Entertainment, along with William Morris & Perry Farell comissioned Interloper Films to document Lollapalooza as a multiyear project (2005-2007).
On stage with 2mm lens on Super 16 camera – Wolfmother
In 2006 – Ondi Timoner, Vasco Nunes, and Jeff Frey produced, Nunes took up cinematography, while Timoner led directorial efforts. The multicamera shoot, with 4 verite crews, plus multiple self contained operators in the live music shows, along with a two camera setup in a trailer for interviews with Timoner rounded out the coverage that lead to 100s of hrs of material. The coverage, and a collection of archival material to be harvested - Lollapalooza, a feature-length film about the history of alternative music, politics and culture from 1990 through 2008 through the experience of America’s first touring festival would be told. 2007 was the last year of documentation with the feature project on hold, the amassed material was over 500 hrs.
2006 was dotted by extraordinary moments on and off stage by:
Panic! at the Disco, The Raconteurs, Ween, Gnarls Barkley, Common, Kanye West, Ben Kweller, Matisyahu, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Pepper, Eels, Ryan Adams, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, Manu Chao, The Redwalls, Nickel Creek, The Shins, Wilco, Aqualung, Stars, Iron & Wine, Sleater-Kinney, Feist, Calexico, The Dresden Dolls, Thievery Corporation, Blues Traveler, Sound Team, Editors, Cursive, The Secret Machines, Violent Femmes, The Go! Team, Wolfmother, Smoking Popes, The New Pornographers, 30 Seconds to Mars, She Wants Revenge, Broken Social Scene, Ohmega Watts, Jeremy Enigk, Lady Sovereign, Peeping Tom, Lyrics Born, Blackalicious, Hot Chip, Pepper, The Reverend Horton Heat, Peter DiStefano, Patti Smith and Perry Farrell
Matisyahu hopped everywhere
Brendan Benson, from The Raconteurs, steals my camera at the end of their set
2005 Lollapalooza
August 3rd, 2005
LOLLAPALOOZA - July 23, 2005 – July 24, 2005, Grant Park, Chicago
C3 – know in 2005 as Capital Sport & Entertainment, along with William Morris & Perry Farell comissioned Interloper Films to document Lollapalooza as a multiyear project (2005-2007).
Nunes, Farrell, and Timoner
In 2005 – Ondi Timoner, Vasco Nunes, and Dawn Fanning took producing duties, with Nunes heading up cinematography, while Timoner led the directorial efforts. The multicamera shoot, with 4 verite crews, plus multiple self contained operators in the live music shows, along with a two camera setup in a trailer for interviews with Timoner rounded out the coverage that lead to 100s of hrs of material. The coverage, and a collection of archival material to be harvested - Lollapalooza, a feature-length film about the history of alternative music, politics and culture from 1990 through 2008 through the experience of America’s first touring festival would be told.
2005 was dotted by extraordinary moments on and off stage by including the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre:
M83, Primus, Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., Drive-By Truckers, Widespread Panic, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Dashboard Confessional, Billy Idol, Pixies, OK Go, Satellite Party, Arcade Fire, The Killers, The Warlocks, Kaiser Chiefs, The Bravery, The Black Keys, Digable Planets, Saul Williams, Louis XIV, Ben Kweller, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, The Redwalls, Ambulance LTD, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Blonde Redhead, Tegan and Sara, The Dandy Warhols, VHS or Beta, DJ Z-Trip, Mark Farina, Los Amigos Invisibles, Sound Tribe Sector 9, and Perry Farrell.
The fans were an energetic presence at every stage
2004-2005 Recycle is Honored
December 31st, 2004
Recycle is honored by an extensive and award winning festival run across the globe.
- International Cinematographer’s Guild Award Winner
- Winner Sustainability Award at Media that Matters Film Festival
- Screened at DGA, Cannes, Sundance, and major festivals in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Oceania
- In distribution on DVD, and broadcast on Sundance Channel
Recycle is a portrait of a day in the life of Miguel Diaz in the hilly Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. The homeless poet is recovering from substance abuse through his philosophy of recycling life. Diaz uses all the thrown away items he collects to make a community garden in the median of his street, while offering his insights on survival and nature.
The last festival it was programmed in was at the 32nd Annual Margaret Mead Film Festival at The American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
The Margaret Mead Film Festival is the longest-running, premiere showcase for international documentaries in the United States.
The Project was Directed by Vasco Nunes & Ondi Timoner, photographed by Nunes. Beatriz Sequeira shared Producer Credits, along with Tim Rush.
2004 DIG!
January 21st, 2004
DIG!
- Honored with a Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance Film Festival
- Honored with inclusion into the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC
DIG! is the feature-length documentary shot over seven years about musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of the Dandy Warhols, star crossed friends and bitter rivals. From the moment they met, The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre quickly bonded over a desire to not conform to the tastes of the recording industry. Yet, the bands’ choices over how to express their creativity and originality in a profit-driven industry eventually put them at irreconcilable odds.?In 1996 Anton Newcombe and his band the Brian Jonestown Massacre – who in a decade independently released 11 albums, 3 recorded in one year – are hell-bent on staging a revolution in the music industry. They are convinced their friends, the Dandy Warhols, will join them to create a united front. But Anton’s creative psychosis takes him to the most remote areas of the human mind to find his original art, and as a result, he destroys every opportunity for financial success. ?While tracking the destructive path of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, DIG! also accompanies the more ‘well-adjusted’ Warhols through their leader Courtney Taylor, as they navigate the corporate sea, trying to maintain their creative edge while starring in mega-budget music videos and entertaining crowds in the tens of thousands.?DIG! is about both musicians’ love and obsession, gigs and recordings, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers – their choices between art and industry, which unfold with the passage of time.
The film was ultimately purchased by Palm Picture’s Chris Blackwell. Nunes, Koh, Timoner & Blackwell would develop a project about the History of Jamaican Music that unfortunately did not go into Production. The Project was developed over a period of 3 years, with several shoots in UK and Jamaica.
“Heaven-sent narrative! ?If universities ever start graduate programs in rock stardom, ‘Dig!’ will surely be a cornerstone of the curriculum.” ?A.O. Scott, New York Times
“Terrific and fascinating! ‘Dig’ is chock full of drama yet too sympathetic to seem exploitative.” ?Dennis Harvey, Variety
“A viciously sharp essay on art, commerce, friendship and madness.” ?Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
“Powerful! Transcends the rock-doc genre.” ?Andrew Strickman, Rolling Stone
American Cinematographer Article
DIG! IMDB
DIG! wiki
2000′s
January 1st, 2000
Upon arriving to Los Angeles, Nunes had a chance to work with numerous crews in the Los Angeles areas for the likes of Peter Smiley, Ben Seresin, Conrad Hall, Harris Savides.
He began a series of unique shoots with David Lee Roth, that became a 3 year collaboration. He made several early videos with Capital Records’ The Vines, Ok Go!, and The Dandy Warhols, part of a series of projects that began to unfold with Ondi Timoner.
In the midst of this, Nunes attended AFI where he completed an MFA in Cinematography with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Arts Foundation
1990′s
December 13th, 1999
Dedo Weigert Film, GmbH, Munich – 1999-2000
Having had worked in the film camera house CPT in Atlanta in 1998, and after meeting with filmmaker, inventor, and legendary documentary cinematographer, Dedo Weigert in Los Angeles, Nunes decided to move to Munich, Germany.
At Checkpoint Charlie the last days of 1999
There he worked as a Photosonics slow motion operator for commercials and features in Europe, along with joining the entire crew at Dedo Weigert Film in R&D efforts (Dedo Weigert GmbH has won two technical achievement awards by the Academy), and equipment expertise and sales.
Shooting with a 2500 fps 4B/C stock eater camera in Nimes for Mercedes SLR film.
This work took him to work for Zach Schneider in Sicily on BMW spots, to giving workshops to Khasakistan’s Film Studio. The shooting projects were diverse in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Khasakistan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the USA. The technical work included one NAB, one CineGear, and two DWF Road Tour of Germany (5 cities 5 days) a marathon of equipment management, setup,transportation and extensive workshops given.
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JARI a feature Documentary Project – 1997
The first feature length documentary for Vasco Nunes in the depths of the Brazilian Jungle.
Getting some film of the Onça (panther) belonging to Barbudo, Beiradão’s ‘controling’ investor.
Artur Spiegel was forming 7ate9 in Atlanta, and eager to document one of the miriad of stories from the depths of the amazon in 1997. He tapped Nunes to come and produce, translate and photograph in the Brazilian Amazon, in the river Jari, south of the French Guineas. It was 1997, and the project was called JARI, documenting the project by intriguing man- Daniel K Ludwig.
Water Buffalo were brought in to polulate and feed the large estate.
The adventures of this shoot remain vivid in all of our memories, and the project will find light in the near future.
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CNN , Atlanta GA – 1996-1998
While completing a Honors (magna cum laude) BA in Film Production, Nunes edited in Quantel for 2 years at CNN en Espanol, CNN International, and CNN SI.
Associate Producer on French World Cup coverage by CNN sports and Live News Switcher.
Made several stints with the Turner Film Unit, sometimes it felt like everything was wrestling promos, but the expertise of this group is underestimated.
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SIC TV – 1992-1995
Returning from Madrid to Lisbon, Nunes began working for SIC TV, the first private TV channel in Portugal during its golden years of massive success. He started working in the lighting department, eventually working his way to Gaffer and Camera. His work at the Channel included several Live National Events, Live Futbol, Variety Shows, News Shows, and many specials, including the live studio debate with Mikhail Gorbachev during his first visit to Portugal.
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Madrid, 1987 – 1992
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Lisboa, 1974-1987
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Bobby, Ben & Oren during shotlisting sessions
