Featured Docs & Non-Fiction:

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  Write the Future

  (Sports)
  [ 3:14 - from YouTube ]

  On the eve of the World Cup, Nike has recruited Hollywood director Alejandro G. Iñarritu (21 Grams, Babel) to create this three-minute salute to the game that connects the continents.  With a star-studded cast of the expected (players including Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Landon Donovan) and the unexpected (Kobe Bryant, Roger Federer and Homer Simpson!), the film captures all the white-knuckled tension and split-second glories of the game's biggest moments. Launched exclusively on NikeFootball.com, the viral film is scheduled for a "global rollout" across 32 countries, rippling like a pixelated human wave across the hemispheres. view

  

  Journalist / Web Producer Melissa Roth
  Journalist, Author, Web Producer
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  The Birdmen

  (News, Profiles)
  [ 13:16 - from CBS ]

  In the latest craze that has killed several extreme adventurers, men don wing suits, jump off mountain tops and glide at speeds of 140 miles per hour.  It's a bird.  It's a plane.  No, it's a bird...man. view

  

  Journalist / Producer Sunny Gault
  Journalist, Host, Producer 
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  Arctic Surf Film

  (Sports)
  [ 8:50 - from YouTube ]

  Somebody had to do it. Five surfers strapped on battery powered wet suits and tackled waves that have never been surfed before. Yassine Ouhilal filmed their trek while he was on location as a photographer for Outside Magazine. This short doc proves that you don't need a bunch of fancy tools to make a great film. Ouhilal videotaped the trek with a Canon 5DMkII, mixed the audio in GarageBand, and cut the footage in iMovie. It turns out that this film is also branded entertainment for Eddie Bauer and their new line of mountaineering gear called “First Ascent." See - branded entertainment doesn't have to feel like a commercial. view

  

  Camera Expert & Content Creator Michael Tapp
  Content Creator | Shooter | Camera Tech 
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  Toxic West Virginia: Part 2

  (Eco / Green, Nature, News)
  [ 6:13 - from VBS ]

  Since the advent of mountaintop removal in the 1970s, literally hundreds of mountains in West Virginia have been decimated with explosives, leaving behind an ashy, treeless wasteland that is estimated to span 1.4 million acres by 2010. Despite the enormity of this activity, mountaintop removal has somehow remained below the radar as an ecological crisis. This video is the first of a five part series which explores the issue from the perspective of locals, coal miners, and mining companies.  view

  

  Core eGuider Jaime Iglehart
  Writer / Director 
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  Leno Damaged by "Tonight" Fight?

  (Art & Entertainment)
  [ 12:01 - from CNN ]

  As Conan O'Brien hosted his final "Tonight Show," CNN's media critic Howard Kurtz wonders if Jay Leno has been tarnished in the eyes of America. His panel offers amusing, occasionally daft opinions as to why Leno is (or isn't) the bad guy of the whole NBC debacle. As for me? Team Coco all the way. view

  

  Film Buff Chris Brenner
  Post Production Point Man, Border Patrol, Scarecrow
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  Radar Nineteen: Makerbot

  (Computers / Tech)
  [ 4:05 - from Babelgum ]

  Someday, all of us will have a 3D printer in our office, where anything we can imagine will be quickly “printed” into a plastic object. Eyeglass frames, action figures, tweezers, doll houses, Walt Disney’s head (it’s sculpture). Born out of a “hackers collective” in Brooklyn, MakerBot is a start-up to watch – and so hard to get the 2D mind around it’s best captured by this video doc. view

  

  Journalist / Web Producer Melissa Roth
  Journalist, Author, Web Producer
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  Ian Somerhalder - The Vampire Diaries - Damon's Motivations

  (Profiles)
  [ 3:00 - from YouTube ]

  Fans of the new series "Vampire Diaries" are already drooling over the latest blood-thirsty hottie to grace the screen this year, so they will no doubt enjoy this short interview with actor Ian Somerhalder, who explains why his character Damon is such a bad boy vampire. view

  

  Indie Music Expert Varlo Vanore
  Writer, Musician
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  Cable PSA

  (How-To)
  [ 1:57 - from Hulu ]

  Old people don't get much better than this. In this Spike Feresten-produced PSA, a sweet elderly woman demonstrates how easy it is to convert our analog televisions to digital. Remember, websites start with 3 W's. And don't forget that we're 100% digital starting February 17th! view

  

  Core eGuider Brian Rothe
  Director of Content, eGuiders