Small Wonder Video Services

14/09/2024

26-minute documentary I edited in 1992 about what makes the New York Times the New York Times. The times wanted and paid for a 12-minute piece. My first rough cut was 26 minutes, and they couldn't find anything they were willing to remove, so they agreed to pay for the additional postproduction and published everything I gave them.

26-minute documentary I edited in 1992 about what makes the New York Times the New York Times. The times wanted and paid for a 12-minute piece. My first rou...

24/02/2024

Wow, I’m so glad Joel posted this on YouTube because I’ve not seen my collaboration with them in over 30 years. I shot and edited this video. I had a great time and was hugely honored to work with these two giants. I was 25 at the time, just a kid starting out on my own career as a visual artist in NYC. They treated me with total respect and trusted me to film and edit this piece to my vision. They did a great job covering the material they set out to cover, including a history of Street Photography and I’d like to think I did them proud with my shooting and editing. I hope you like it. Thanks again guys, for your trust and respect. I’m gonna go watch it now, it’s been 42 years…

I have to say it’s rather amazing for me to watch this after 42 years. Having shot and edited this doc, which is my favorite way to work, I remember each moment of choice in both filming and editing intimately. It’s like an old friend. We didn’t have a crew, on the street it was just the three of us, “playing Jazz”. I shot it as if I were a street photographer, to match Joel’s openness to whatever happens. They were both wearing wireless mikes so I wasn’t tied to them and was able to take my distance. I like the shots where you can barely see them for everything else the street is providing. Eye candy everywhere. The way I edited their conversation sings like a song to me, I remember the cadence and flow distinctly.

My favorite part is up by the fountain at the Plaza Hotel where Joel is narrating what we are seeing and I took the risk to drift off of them to let the camera just absorb the flow of people coming to us, Joel pauses his description and waits for what I’m shooting to simply unfold. Someone else would have said, “Hey what the f are you doing NOT filming me”, but Joel knew what I was doing and why, and made room for me to do my thing. I liked this piece 42 years ago, and I like it today. Thanks again, guys.

Nice to see too that our work is well received:

Wow, I'm so glad Joel posted this on YouTube because I've not seen my collaboration with them in over 30 years. I shot and edited this video. I had a great time and was hugely honored to work with these two giants. I was 25 at the time, just a kid starting out on my

11/09/2017

Never before seen footage. The Armory at 26th St and Lexington Ave in Manhattan, near where I lived, became the communication hub for families of those missing from the Twin Towers. For months the …

26/06/2017

Some highlights from various promotional and seminar videos I've directed for authors. Thanks for watching and sharing...

Sam Small Director Clients: Mastin Kipp, Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Ram Dass, Lisa Garr, Doreen Virtue, Radleigh Valentine, Nassim Haramein, Joe Marshalla, G...

12/02/2017

Help make JADAM (Korean Natural Farming) videos in English:

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20/10/2016

Bloopers from video sessions at Small Wonder Video Services with best selling author and seminar leader Mastin Kiipp. I had the pleasure of directing Mastin for 4 days of creative fun!

29/06/2015

Part One of Two Videos...

Terez Amato served our community well as the host of this event. Hear more from Terez at http://terezamato.com/community-breathing-glass/ PART ONE OF TWO: Learn its history and culture on Maui. How it impacts your health. the environment and our economy. Speakers: Alika Atay Uncle Alika Atay was...

04/08/2014

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30/06/2014

Maui Provides Opportunities for Extraordinary Production Content
Hawaii Film and TV Magazine Guest Column June 2014

SPANNING LIFE AND DEATH, AND BOTH INNER AND OUTER SPACE, MAUI CONTINUES TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCTION CONTENT IN VARIOUS FORMS:

Maui continues to blossom as a venue for world-class educational workshops providing excellent content for multi-camera, live-switched tele-productions that are distributed internationally over the web.

Small Wonder Video Services has been honored to provide the equipment and creative skills for several such productions over the past few months.

“Youthing-Maui” was a three-day, five-camera shoot, that streamed live to four different websites and at its peak, an estimated 10,000 viewers.

Fred Spanjaard of Maui’s Global Media Productions staged the event at the luxurious Andaz Hotel in Wialea, for Brazil’s Beach Park Resort. Sam Small produced and directed the live feed, backed by Jim Langford as technical director. Taking a turn as narrator, Sam voiced a :30 radio spot to promote the event locally.

Presentations by Viktorus Kulvinskas on dietary enzymes for sports performance and life extension were punctuated by two concerts from The Boom Boom’s, a Vancouver world-beat band that’s gained popularity in Brazil by raising it’s voice in resistance to the controversial Belo Monte Dam project.

The event was capped off by a rare visit to Maui and talk by Sri Prem Baba, a popular Brazilian spiritual leader, who pleaded for the protection of Mother Earth from the current onslaught of exploitation, including the exploding use of pesticides associated with GMO experimentation and seed production here in Hawaii.

On the other side of the content spectrum from Longevity was another three-day workshop titled “ Life, Death, Near Death and Beyond”, an exploration of the wide range of End of Life issues.

The event was sponsored by CA’s Sunrise Center, and held at Maui’s Hale Akua retreat facility. Three cameras captured the proceedings and 16 hours of unique educational content is now being packaged for web marketing and distribution.

Maui County has been abuzz with the first ever citizen’s petition drive to submit enough registered voter’s signatures so as to get a motion on the November ballot. Proposed is a temporary moratorium on GMO and pesticide experimentation until the Agro-Chemical companies show independent health studies proving exposure to what they are uniquely spraying on Maui and Molokai is safe for humans and the land.

A grassroots group called The SHAKA Movement has been promoting the drive and
Small Wonder has been commissioned to provide video and radio production as well as press release and social media marketing services. The chemical companies have purchased millions of dollars of advertising time in local markets and have their PR agencies churning propaganda to defend their position. One of the local papers made note that it’ll be a battle of public relations “Big Dogs” that Maui’s never seen before. Small Wonder is proud to be on the front line of this initiative supporting reason and safety for Maui County’s Keiki and the ‘Aina.

Recent interviews shot by Sam Small have covered some interesting topics: a British version of the popular “Ancient Aliens” TV show put on camera Maui’s Sasha Lessin, Ph.D., an anthropologist who’s widely studied ancient Sumerian tablets as translated by the late Zecharia Sitchin. The interview centered around DNA manipulation in earth’s ancient past by a race of extra terrestrials from the planet Nibiru called the Anunnaki , to create a slave labor force to mine for gold and which led to the emergence of humans as we are today.

And another interview Sam shot is now part of a feature length documentary that will open the upcoming Maui Film Festival June 4th. Maui’s Ram Dass, author of the seminal counter-culture book “Be Here Now”, back when he was teaching at Harvard as Dr. Richard Alpert, teamed with Timothy Leary to introduce an entire generation to the wonders of psychedelic journeys as a step to raising one’s consciousness beyond the mundane, towards a more spiritual existence. The film titled “Dying To Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary” was produced and directed by Gay Dillingham and includes footage spanning over 80 years. It’s an intimate and entertaining conversation about life, death and the psychedelic explorations that began it all.

Spanning life and death, and both inner and outer space, Maui continues to provide opportunities for extraordinary production content in various forms and Small Wonder Video Services is please to be riding the production wave towards whatever comes next…

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28/05/2014

Maui GMO Moratorium gets 19,000 signatures http://bit.ly/1jrripj