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BLOG New Eye Tapped to for AREDAY

New Eye Media was tapped to capture the action at AREDAY (American Renewable Energy Day), and to help message to millions the Clean Energy Plan. The New Eye Media team gathered in-depth, one-on-one interviews from leading global change makers including Ted Turner, James Cameron, General Wesley Clark, Graciela Chichilnisky, the author of the Kyoto Protocol, Lester Brown of the Earth …

VIDEO Johnny Cash’s Graceful Goodbye – Part 2

Running Time: Part One – 7:00 minutes John Carter Cash, the only child of Johnny and June Carter Cash, speaks candidly about his legendary fathers writing and recording of the music that would become his final album, American VI: Aint No Grave. During these final recording sessions in May of 2003–less than four months before he passed–Johnny lost his wife …

VIDEO Johnny Cash’s Graceful Goodbye – Part 1

Running Time: Part One – 5:30 minutes John Carter Cash, the only child of Johnny and June Carter Cash, speaks candidly about his legendary fathers writing and recording of the music that would become his final album, American VI: Aint No Grave. During these final recording sessions in May of 2003–less than four months before he passed–Johnny lost his wife …

VIDEO The Miracle Bean – Jatropha

An ancient perennial plant offers new hope for true sustainable bio-fuel. (Running Time: 4:30 minutes) Jatropha curcas is a tough, drought-resistant plant that can grow in some of the harshest conditions on the planet, and sometimes not even requiring dirt, only the cracks in a rock. It has been used for centuries as hedge-fences for livestock in Central and South …

The Natural World by Thomas Mangelsen

Wondrous and enchanting yet fragile and at risk, New Eye presents The Natural World as seen through the eyes of celebrated nature photographer Thomas Mangelsen. The segment chronicles ten distinct ecosystems that serve as islands of refuge not only for Earth’s diversity of life but for the human spirit as well. The man American Photo Magazine calls “One of the …

Fuel – The Film (May 2009)

A mini-doc overview of “Fuel,” a vital, superbly assembled feature documentary that presents an insightful overview of America’s troubled relationship with oil and how alternative and sustainable energies can reduce our country’s and the world’s addictive dependence on fossil fuels. The piece features interviews with a wide range of environmentalists, policy makers, educators; as well as with “green” celebrities such …

Yusuf (Cat Stevens) – Making “Roadsinger”

For one of music’s most extraordinary artists, the journey continues… One morning, Yusuf was alone in the lounge when he looked over and felt a draw of curiosity overtake him. He slowly picked it up. “I put my fingers on the fretboard to make a ‘C’ chord,” he remembers, “and surprised myself, ‘It’s still there!’ It felt right. So I …

American Folk Blues Festival (May 2009)

A mini-feature (running time 6:30) about an annual event that featured the cream of American blues musicians barnstorming their way across Western Europe every Fall from 1962 through 1966. These historic and unseen performances filmed with superb camera work and pristine sound, the festivals featured a dazzling array of talent that included such greats as Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, and …

VIDEO Kathy Mattea – COAL

Grammy Award winning Kathy Mattea’s latest recording, COAL, is more than just mining songs. Mattea says she wanted to pay tribute to “my place and my people”. Raised near Charleston, West Virginia, her mining heritage is thick: both her parents grew up in coal camps, both her grandfathers were miners, her mother worked for the local UMWA. “It’s a coming …