Freedom Ride
This is documentary our crew created for our documentary class.
Hope you enjoy.
Freedom Ride is a non-profit therapeutical horseback riding center for the mentally and physically disabled located in Orlando, FL. Since 1998, Freedom Ride has helped adults and children in a number of ways.
Their lease is expiring in less than five years and they’re in desperate need of funds for a new location to continue this inspiring work they’ve created.
A group of students came together to do a short documentary on what Freedom Ride is and how it has helped people in ways never imaginable. Our goal is to spread awareness of this cause and hopefully touch the hearts of enough people to keep Freedom Ride going.
My director for the documentary we’re in the process finishing just sent me this picture she took on her film Minolta camera. The one in the black is me shooting one of the lessons (they were doing a trail ride at the time). It was such a blast, although I was trying my best to keep up with the horse. It didn’t help that it was about 95 degrees out (not to mention the humidity), so I probably permanently lost any trace of fat I might ever gain in college.
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My Friend, Ryan
I have a good friend named Ryan Rado. I’ve known him for about 10 years and first met him at a Bleach show in Huntsville, AL. Within the first 5 minutes of our conversation he pinched me multiple times while in mid sentence. I wasn’t thrown off by this because a few friends told me that Ryan had Tourettes Syndrome. We instantly hit it off. Ryan’s ticks and pinching never bothered me over the years. If anything, it was kind of endearing. To myself and anyone that knew Ryan, it’s just what he did. Although we all got used to those things, you couldn’t help but wonder how bad it really was, especially because we knew he had been on medications for most of his life. Ryan is the type of friend who you could not see for years and then pick back up right where you left off. He is very loyal, compassionate, understanding and someone who will be there for you in a heartbeat.
A couple of weeks ago, Ryan and I were hanging out and he was telling me that he was about to start a treatment called Neuro Training. In a nutshell, it’s a treatment where your brainwaves are read and played back to you in real time in the form of audio waves. You can read more about it on his blog. Ryan didn’t ask for help. He just told me his story and all I wanted to do was help! Right away, I had the idea to start documenting, on video, his journey through this treatment. There are way more details to this whole thing, so I hope anyone reading this will read Ryan’s blog and follow him through this process and learn more about Tourette’s Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Here is a short trailer I made for Ryan to help him out. If you get anything out of it, please pass it around, tweet it, facebook…etc. Ryan could use your help, even if it’s just thoughts and prayers.
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Tim Tebow with director Chase Heavener at Full Sail presenting a special screening of Tebow’s documentary, “Tim Tebow: Everything In Between.”
I can’t say I’ve always been a Tim Tebow fan. I never, ever hated him or anything, but I’ve never really known too much about him. I respected him tremendously for doing that pro-life ad in the Superbowl last year, but that’s pretty much all I knew about him. Today, I saw a documentary covering his exit from college football, all the way to the day where he would ultimately be drafted into the NFL.
All I can say is that I am awe-struck with inspiration. You could tell just by the film documenting his day-to-day life and everyday actions how much of a genuine person he truly is. It’s interesting just to see how he much dedication and passion he puts into what he does, and how he stands behind his principles in every single aspect of his life and career.
During the Q&A’s he said something really intriguing in relation to his Christian life: “Because I’m a quarterback, I can practically say whatever I want. People invite me to go and talk at high schools; that’s somewhere pastors and other people won’t ever be able to go in. If I want to talk about Jesus and God’s love for people, I can because people love football and people want to hear a quarterback talk. And I just think it’s an awesome opportunity to be used by God.” (I’m paraphrasing, don’t murder me).
He also spoke about being a role model, as well as only endorsing products he truly thought are legit. He said that he would never advertise something he wouldn’t use himself, no matter what amount of money people offered him.
I don’t know, but I’m just so psyched about this entire thing. I’m thankful that he was born and that I watched this documentary today. It inspired me in ways I’d never thought possible.
Just thought I’d share.
(I definitely recommend seeing this film as soon as it comes out on DVD).
Help me out!? Please!?
(I’m going to sleep now, and I’ll only check this tomorrow around 3ish PM… but…)
So I’m editing this documentary on this mission trip that a few friends from church did to Haiti. They spent 3 days there and they gave out clothes, and toothbrushes, and shoes, and visited some orphanages. They really made all those people happy. Most of them live in absolutely horrible living conditions.
I’ll give you more information about it later. But I’m going to be interviewing them with questions tomorrow night.
Is there anything you could think of to ask any of them? Seriously, anything. About the food, about the people, about how they felt doing it? ANYTHING? I really need your help. (And plus, imagine YOUR question being on a DVD that will probably sell to lots of people around the world?)
Thanks again you guys!
