So here I am, on a 6 week volunteer stint in Więckowice, a small village in the suburban area of Kraków. For the past few weeks, I've been working with an NGO called Fundacja Wspólnota Nadziei that provides assistance to adults with autism. The centre operates a farm for the autistic participants to work on, and this is the first of its kind in Poland.

(Un)fortunately, my stay here coincided with the death of Polish President Lech Kaczyński as well as many other important officials. Last Sunday, I attended his funeral at Kraków, and put together a short piece of street scenes leading up to the event.

The accompanying song was recorded live at the market square where the crowd was gathered to watch the funeral. The actual event took place at the Wawal Castle, which was out of bounds for the public. This is a catholic hymm about resurrection, and it is usually sung during Easter.



More about work and life on the farm coming up soon..

"The Last 3 Minutes" From Shane Hurlbut, ASC from Shane Hurlbut, ASC on Vimeo.

Shane Hurlbut, a versatile director of photography with works spanning across action, fashion and commercial realms, delivers a beautiful short narrative using the 5D mark 2. Storytelling is brought to new heights.

Read more about his experiences here.

One of our short film, 31.12.2009, recently won the Best Music Score Award at the Panasonic Digital Film Fiesta 2010. (Although sound design would be a better term as we did not really use an original song composition per se). But nevertheless, we were quite exciting about the SGD$1,000 voucher that was the prize.



As we pondered about what to get using the money, one of us, who shall renamed unnamed for now, took a look at the voucher and said, "Don't worry, vouchers like these last for a year."





The realisation came after Darren re-read the letter one day on 7 April 2010 and found out that the voucher is now past its date. The unnamed personnel frantically called a few places up to see if they could extend the validity, to no avail of course.

Too much trust in the studio man!