In May of 2010, Gorilla Pictures took a trip to Philadelphia, PA with a few of our friends from Amway. The goal? To document the work of Amway’s Positive Sprouts initiative, part of their One by One Campaign for Children. There we filmed the creation of an inner city garden, purposed to teach children about sustainable food sources and healthy living. The resulting effort was pretty cool. Philadelphia’s Amway community showed up in a big way and worked with the Frankfort Boy’s and Girl’s club to literally create the garden in a day.

The video we created to document this event has been accepted into Boston College’s, Center for Corporate Citizenship Film Festival. While our work was only a small part of what Amway is doing through their One by One campaign, we’re excited to have contributed and wish them lots of luck in the film festival.

If you would like to see the video and cast a vote to help it win, simply follow this link and scroll down until you find the entry labeled “Amway.” You can’t miss it.

For more info check out Amway’s blog: blogs.amway.com

The world of film production is a crazy thing. One minute you’re sitting in your cozy Grand Rapids, Michigan office counting snowflakes and the next minute you’re getting a call from the good people at Amway Global to pack your camera, sandals, and sunblock for a trip to Haiti (but this is no vacation). And that should mean something right now, because as all of you well know, the damage the earthquake in Haiti has done is beyond comprehension. Gorilla feels very blessed to be asked to go on this trip and help out in any way possible. Eric Johnson and Tanner Wolfe, one of our favorite documentary cinematographers, will be the two Gorilla representatives. They leave tomorrow and will be back on Saturday. We know the trip is short but excitement is high (as well as emotions).

Apologies for the brief blogging but Eric and Tanner have a lot of planning to do. A more comprehensive (and picture-filled!) blog on the Haiti adventure will appear early next week. So check back.