Pan Left Productions

Most of the time, Pan Left member projects are documentaries. This is what Pan Left Productions is known for. The desire to passionately present truths and true stories previously unheard or underheard has been the fundamental drive of the organization.

For the last six years of my filmmaking career that's been my priority as well, and I don't think I'll ever stop making non-fiction films. However, my experiences and

David Lynch has a new web series called Interview Project which are interviews (I assume video; see earlier Lynch charla) with "every day" people encountered on a cross country road trip. Sounds like familiar road trip genre stuff and Lynch always gathers the critic crowd, so debates will begin, but after watching the first two episodes and the trailer, they're interesting from a "get to know your neighbor" perspective. The cinematography looks great and I tend to take notice of the simple minimal stuff these days since I need some reprogramming from my MTV youth, so i'll keep tuning in. However...

not sure how the critics and bloggers will rate this new Lynch project, but i'm willing to bet he'll receive some acclaim for creating this kind of docu-web series. So it occurred to me that if you like this kind of approach there's another great docu-web series that's been around a while and has a similar style. The videos from Center for Creative Chaos has some excellent on-the-scene videos with homeless people in their web series, and although the theme might be different from Lynch's project; I felt a similar vibe to the connection being created with people on camera and so far I've found their stores more compelling. So I want to give a salud to, Ron Austin, the producer with the homeless documentary team at Center for Creative Chaos who creates media that doesn't get noticed like Lynch, but are no less important.

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/
http://community.centerforcreativechaos.com/

Sort of related to us, but thought some of you might be interested.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/13/synesthesia-new-book.html

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