May 13, 2008
LONG ROAD NORTH World Premiere
LONG ROAD NORTH is premiering at the DOXA documentary film festival
in Vancouver.
May 28th and May 31st 2008
Check out
http://www.doxafestival.ca/festival/long_road_north
To buy tickets online.
Please help support independent filmmakers!
The more people come the greater our chances are of getting the film out to other festivals, so please get the word out and help us get the film out there and seen by as many people as possible.
With this film I really hope to be opening a small window to the world beyond our daily lives.
This film has been two years of editing and production since my return from the Antipodes Expedition. All done on a shoestring budget without any grants or outside funding; the ethos of making the film really follows how we lived the expedition. We lived as nomads as self sufficient as possible on two wheels. Making the film has been similar, relying on our determination to get through, learn the skills and overcome all the challenges of telling a story on film.
This film would not have been possible without the tremendous commitment and energy poured in by Ian Hinkle. He had experience in expedition documentary filmmaking with his very successful film "The Living Coast" he was able to help take 19 months of footage from an expedition he did not even take part in and become familiar enough with all the footage to tease out a beautiful silver thread of a story that crosses half way around the world.
To view the trailer of the film please visit the Film Website www.longroadnorth.com
or you can also see the trailer on youtube:
February 06, 2008
Gallery images!
Wow, after more than a few months down.
I managed to upgrade the gallery program
and all the images are now viewable again.
Gwendal
January 21, 2008
Making of the Film
I can't beleive how long I've neglected the expedition journal.
Although it has now been a while since the physical journey has come to a close on the shores of the Mackenzie Delta. This kind of adventure does not leave you unchanged. So for the last two years I've been slowly processing and digesting all the things I've seen and learnt along the way.
Slowly the daily grind of the city and my new routines have made some memories a little more out of focus, but I have made a concerted effort to do something useful with all these experiences.
During the expedition I collected over 70 hours of film footage, 36 rolls of slide film and 10,000 digital images.
So during the last two years I've been working hard at making a film that tells the story of this experience and how it has changed me and my outlook on the world.
The film is nearly finished post production and will be available on DVD and touring the world in 2008.
Please visit our new film website:
www.longroadnorth.com
to see the film trailer and a synopsis of the film.
For all of you who have followed the expedition though this website it will be a fantastic opportunity to really feel what living for months on end, travelling the world by bicycle might be like.
kind regards,
Gwendal Castellan
