By Steve Richards

​We are just back from Jubal Studio in Kathmandu where we edited our original 73-minute version of So FLo FLoods to a snappier 56-minute version to satisfy the desires of museums, schools, and community centers for a quicker rendering.

While it seemed impossible to cut a quarter of the film it turns out that we like it just fine – and if it enables more people to see it, we’re obviously good with that. The film’s treatment of South Florida’s flooding past, present, and future, are all intact as are the interviews (though trimmed a bit) with Professors Wanless and Weisskoff from the University of Miami, Paul George from HistoryMiami, Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch from the SFWMD, author Robert Mykle, and the others.

We are currently scheduling new screenings of the film for Spring and Summer and are set to premiere the new version on April 3rd on Miami Beach at the So FLo FLoods Competition Awards Ceremony at Miami Beach Senior High. Be on the lookout for more information as we get closer to the event.

​To see the film’s updated trailer just click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/248031362. You can keep up with all we are doing at SoFloFloods.com and on our facebook page: @SoFloFloods.

By Steve Richards

​A month gone already? Seems like we just got here – and our blog is woefully behind. But we have SOOO much awesome 4K footage for our upcoming: Piles of Bricks (Revisited) our look at Nepal’s 2015 earthquake recovery efforts five years later.

What’d we do?
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• Documented earthquake recovery, rebuilding, and other development efforts in Kathmandu and the surrounding Kathmandu Valley.
• Interviewed villagers that we first interviewed in the fall of 2015.
• Talked with the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust’s Raju Roka.
• Toured Patan Durbar Square and went deep inside a Hindu temple being rebuilt from the top down - and bottom up  - with Hindu priest Susan Kapali.
• Documented home rebuilding, hi-rise reconstruction, road construction, river re-engineering, etc.
• Furthered the production of Nepal’s Water, our upcoming film about the water crisis afflicting Kathmandu, hydropower projects, sacred uses of water by various religious communities, and the impact of climate change.
• Worked with new students and delivered new equipment at the National Theological College (NTC).
• Launched our ten-part online course based upon Economics in the Gospels at the NTC.
• Began shooting and editing in 4K with the delivery of new equipment to Amit Nepali’s Jubal Studios.