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Learn about the free Colorado Extreme hockey program for children in the mid-Roaring Fork Valley. (03:10)
Meet the dedicated coaches who help to make the Colorado Extreme youth hockey program so successful. (01:19)
The Shining Stars returned to Buttermilk Mountain in February, 2023, after a two-year COVID break, and turned the resort upside down. (03:05)
Enjoy the Shining Stars Foundation’s 2023 Gala Video showing the action from the Aspen Winter Games. (20:00)
FocusedKids™ provides a curriculum of mindful exercises for kids to learn about the brain, and calming activities that support self-control. (01:14)
Challenge Aspen helps Emiliano and Juan, two brothers from Mexico with physical disabilities, to ski with their family. (02:08)
Challenge Aspen now offers a Summer Program with an assortment of outdoor activities for clients with physical challenges. (01:16)
Bridging Bionics Foundation helps clients of all ages, some as young as four years old. (05:33)
Bridging Bionics Foundation brought in an neurologic music therapy expert to conduct a 12-month long study on the effectiveness of NMT for Colorado clients. (06:16)
The Shining Stars Foundation helps kids and families facing life threatening illnesses. One popular program, Family Adventure, brings entire families together for a week of bonding and activities.(03:26)
Some Bridging Bionics Foundation clients are as young as four years old. Meet a few of the kids who receive the same treatments, and improve their lives, just like the older clients. (05:30)
Meet Elliot Farmer, who refuses to allow his physical disability to slow him down, hits the ski slopes thanks to 501 c(3) nonprofit Challenge Aspen. (01:09)
Challenge Aspen needed a thirty second video to be displayed on large monitors in the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport baggage area. (00:30)
Team Gleason, a New Orleans based 501 c(3) nonprofit, helped Asia Jami cross off one of her bucket list goals, to ski in the Colorado, with the help of Challenge Aspen. (00:30)
InSync Exotics – “A Daily Struggle”. InSync Exotics Wildlife Rescue Center faces a never-ending challenge to raise funds to care for abused, unwanted and neglected exotic felines.
The Colorado High School Cycling League fields nearly 80 teams from around Colorado, South Dakota, New Mexico and Wyoming, with 2,000 student racers. (2:18)
Enjoy the “Slo-Mo” mountain bike action of the SLV Rattlers, a composite team made of teens from several small high schols, and home-schooled students, in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. (2:00)
Bridging Bionics Foundation celebrates six years of helping people to stand up and walk again by helping to provide mobility to clients. (5:24)
Amanda Boxtel describes the donated auction items to support the 2021 Bridging Bionics Foundation “RISE UP” campaign. (1:05)
Bridging Bionics Foundation is thankful to receive a donated NuStep machine to assist clients with spinal cord and other injuries with their physical therapy. (3:00)
Tyler Williams is a former pro ski and mountain bike racer who battles against Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) with the help of advanced technologies provided by the Bridging Bionics Foundation. (4:10)
Bridging Bionics Foundation wanted to generate local interest in an upcoming branding video, “Tyler’s Story”, so we created a :60 “tease” using beautiful skiing video and the perfect song. (1:00)
Colorado Wild Public Lands is your public lands watchdog, overseeing land exchanges between government agencies and private entities. Since 2000 there have been over 150 land exchanges in Colorado alone. (1:15)
Shannon is a military veteran who suffers from CRPS, a debilitating disease that keep her in pain every minute… every day. Challenge America is helping her and other vets to improve their lives. (2:09)
Assaf Dory tells how his “stupid idea” lead to the Mt. Elber Challenge, and what keeps him going while suffering from the ‘Suicide Disease’ (2:33)
Assaf Dory and Shannon von Driska share a conversation about Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, a practically unknown disease they both share. (1:00)
Dash Wong, a Special Forces veteran, tells how losing a lung to cancer helped him to “build a mission” called the Mt. Elbert Challenge – something “so absurd that it will get our minds off the situation we are in.” (2:38)
Steven Fotion explains how the injuries he suffered at the America’s Strongest Man competition lead the creation of the Mt. Elbert Challenge, with a focus on “overcoming hopelessness with purpose.. (2:26)
Shannon von Driska talks about her battle with CRPS, called “the suicide disease”, and why she is training to climb the tallest mountain in Colorado. (2:18)
Assaf Dory explains why he located to the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado. In September 2021, Assaf, and three other severely injured Veterans, will attempt to summit the highest peak in Colorado. (1:46)
The Glenwood Canyon Restoration Alliance needed a video to generate public awareness of the nonprofit while educating about post-wildfire rehabilitation practices, such as reseeding. (2:05)
This video looks back at the birth of the Shining Stars Foundation in 2001, and how today they provide strength, support, and hope to children living with pediatric cancer, and their families, through outdoor, social, and recreational experiences. (7:00)
Mason suffered a severe spinal cord injury after crashing his dirt bike in 2019. Today he walks again thanks to the professionals and technologies provided by the Bridging Bionics Foundation, and the supporters who make the program happen. (4:36)
Roxy talks about the difficulty of spending life in a wheel chair, and how Bridging Bionic’s is helping her with physical therapy so she can walk again. Spanish language with English subtitles. (1:51)
MacKenzie Langley shares how Bridging Bionics has impacted her life. From founder Amanda Boxtel’s first visit to today’s use of advanced technologies, Bridging Bionics is helping clients with spinal cord injuries to live better. (1:55)
Dan was paralyzed in a mountain bike accident in 2018. Today he talks about about the Bridging Bionics Foundation, and why he drives an hour each way just to get to physical therapy. (1:43)
FocusedKids is a nonprofit that provides a simple curriculum of mindful exercises developed for kids age 3-8. This video sample is one of ten we produced in Spanish. (4:08)
I have teamed with the Glenwood Canyon Restoration Alliance to help the canyon and local communities recover after the Grizzly Creek Fire that started August, 2020. This video shows how quickly mother nature, with man’s help, starts to heal herself. (1:06)
Take a hiking tour to see how Basalt Mountain is greening-up two years after the Lake Christine Fire in 2018. Restoration and reseeding of the mountain began before the fire was even out. Now you can see the amazing results. (2:40)
This fund-raising video for Challenge Aspen features Bela, who was born and abandoned in India before being adopted by an American couple. She celebrated her ninth year of skiing in Snowmass in 2020. (2:00)
At the start of the 2020 CoVid19 pandemic, I used existing footage to create this entertaining Social Distancing PSA to remind people to stay at least “6 inches” apart. (1:00)
Sophia, who is battling a rare form of brain cancer and is regularly bullied at school, asked to share this special message and song about the problems we all face. (1:33)
Enjoy the 2020 Shining Stars News newscast, which looks back at the action and experiences of 70 children with cancer at the annual Aspen Winter Games. This video is primarily shot, edited and produced during seven day event to present at the final night party. (28:17)
This is the Race Day segment from the Shining Stars Newscast, featuring the action when nearly 70 children with cancer “raced” in the 2020 Aspen Winter Games at Buttermilk Ski Area.(2:04)
Paradox Sports, a Colorado based nonprofit, transforms lives and communities through adaptive climbing opportunities that defy convention. (5:30)
Challenge Aspen is dedicated to impacting lives through year-round adaptive experiences for individuals faced with cognitive and/or physical disabilities. (03:30)
Josh suffered a spinal cord injury after he crashed his truck on a rain-slick road. Today the Bridging Bionics Foundation is helping Josh by providing ongoing physical therapy with advanced technology, at little out-of-pocket cost. (03:50)
Kyle became paralyzed after he was swept over a North Carolina waterfall. Today the Bridging Bionics Foundation and supporters are enabling Kyle to stand up and walk again. (03:45)
Kayla was driving to school when she crashed her car, was ejected from the vehicle, and suffered a spinal cord injury. Today the Bridging Bionics Foundation is helping her to stand and walk again! (03:45)
The Shining Stars Foundation’s “Aspen Summer Adventure” is a week-long program for children ages 8-14 facing cancer or another life-threatening illness. (03:05)
Shining Stars News “breaks into programing” to bring you a recap of the exciting 2019 Aspen Winter Games at Buttermilk Ski Resort. Some of the 70 Stars had never even seen snow or mountains before! (24:00)
80 Basalt High School students, faculty, and community friends, rallied at a head-shaving event to raise money for cancer research in honor of Anna Cunningham. Sadly, Anna passed away the day after this event. (3:00)
This is the short version of the Anna Cunningham Celebration memorial video created with family photos and personal videos. To see the full length version visit https://vimeo.com/329919783 (7:30)
Mauricio Sosa was bullied for much of his young life. When he entered Basalt High School, he decided to take action and spent four years building “The Peace Garden” for his senior year Capstone Project. (4:00)
Meet Graciela and James, two Challenge Aspen participants. Challenge Aspen is dedicated to impacting lives through year-round adaptive experiences for individuals faced with cognitive and/or physical disabilities. (2:30)
The SSN News Team “breaks into regular programing” to bring you a recap of the exciting 2018 Aspen Winter Games at Buttermilk Mountain. This is the third year I produced an entire “newscast” in one week. (27:00)
“Portraits of Hope” is a student film I helped produce that explores what being paralyzed from the perspective of young children, and how programs like Bridging Bionics Foundation help injured athletes to stand up and walk again. (9:30)
The Bridging Bionics Foundation helps people with spinal cord injuries, like Leah Potts, to stand up and walk again using exoskeleton bionic technology. (2:06)
Meet Mackenzie Langley who suffered 9 broken vertebrates in a car accident in 2014. Today she works with the Bridging Bionics Foundation to increase her mobility and to lead a more normal life! (2:20)
Challenge Aspen has been helping people with disabilities, and their families, since 1995. Meet three of them and learn how the program has changed their lives. (3:44)
Watch the instillation of this unique and controversial sculpture, named “Double Black Diamond”, at the new Snowmass Village traffic round-about in June, 2017. (2:48)
Learn about Sunset City, a year-long project created by Kimberly Simon for her class at Aspen Elementary School. Then enjoy snippets from the Sunset City Histories that the third-graders wrote as part of the assignment. (7:28)
See how Shining Stars News covered the First Day of skiing for the 2017 Shining Stars. Most of the Stars had never skied or boarded before. Watch the entire SSN newscast below. (1:56)
Enjoy the entire 2017 Shining Stars News newscast to look back at the Aspen Winter Games which brought seventy children from around the country, all fighting pediatric cancer, to Buttermilk Ski Area. (20:00)
Learn how the Bridging Bionics Foundation is impacting the lives of Roaring Fork Valley neighbors with spinal cord injuries. Using modern bionic technology, the patients are able to stand up and walk again! (5:30)
The Shining Stars Foundation transforms lives through year-round, outdoor recreational and social programs for children and their families challenged with pediatric cancer. (3:42)
Bridging Bionics Foundation is raising $175,000 to bring an Indego® exoskeleton to the Roaring Fork Valley to help people with spinal cord injuries to walk and participate in over-ground gait training. (2:29)
The Ouray Ice Park impacts the winter economy of southwestern Colorado, bringing people to the San Juan’s and keeping local businesses open. This is the official submission video for the 2016 Wright Awards. (1:30)
The Town of Basalt is building a pedestrian underpass under busy Highway 82. Learn more about the project and see what the underpass will look like when it is completed in September 2017. (2:25)
Meet Turner and learn how Challenge Aspen helps to “make the impossible possible”! Recognized as one of the premier adaptive ski programs in the world, Challenge Aspen offers programs year round for participants of all ages. (2:34)
Doss Malone is paralyzed from the waist down and has not walked since 2004… until today! The Bridging Bionics Foundation helps advance the development of exoskeletons and bionic technology to augment human mobility. (1:52)
Challenge Aspen is one of the country’s leading programs for disabled people, which has been replicated throughout the world. I was commissioned to produce a video presentation to kickoff and support a $20 million endowment campaign. (4:34)
The Shining Stars News Team “breaks into programing” to bring you a recap of the exciting 2016 Aspen Winter Games. Seventy children living with pediatric cancer invaded Buttermilk Ski Area for a week of skiing, adventure, and fun. (19:26)
I filmed and field-produced this video about the Best Friends Animal Society, reported by Katie Couric, for Yahoo! News. To watch a higher quality version click on this link: Yahoo! News / Katie Couric – Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
Bridging Bionics Foundation provides funding, education, and advances the development of exoskeletons and bionic technology to enable people with spinal cord injuries to walk again.
Wine, Women & Shoes is a fund raising event that supports the Shining Stars Foundation. Money raised helps to bring children with cancer to the Aspen Winter Games each year.
The Ouray Ice Park has ice for everyone, regardless of skill level and climbing ability. The Park contains over 200 man-made ice and mixed climbs, and three miles of vertical terrain, and is a favorite destination for climbers from around the world.
ACES Ed, a program of the Aspen Center for Environmental Study, provides nationally acclaimed, in-school environmental education at area schools, as well as science programs and field trips for over forty regional schools in Pitkin, Garfield and Eagle counties.
The first snowfall of the season is a big day for Colorado mountain towns. Video produced for the Basalt Chamber of Commerce.
The Community Office for Resource Efficiency is celebrating twenty years of promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and green building in western Colorado and beyond.
The Ouray Ice Park is one of the premier ice climbing destinations in the world. But the massive walls of ice are not just the work of Mother Nature. Each night a corp of ‘ice farmers” grow the ice using over 250,000 gallons of water.
The Aspen Winter Games is held annually by the Shining Stars Foundation. The week-long adaptive snowboard and ski program brings over one hundred children living with cancer or another life threatening illness to Buttermilk Ski Area.
The Locks of Love program provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children suffering from long-term medical hair loss. The children receive hair prostheses free of charge or on a sliding scale, based on financial need.
Say goodbye to Jack Frost. It’s springtime in the Roaring Fork Valley. Video produced for the Basalt Chamber of Commerce.
PrideRock Wildlife Refuge is a private Texas safe haven for Big Cats that have been abused, abandoned, confiscated, or that can no longer be properly cared for by their previous owners.
Kahn, an abused male lion rescued by InSync Exotics Wildlife Rescue Center, starts his day with a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte Decaf. It’s a morning ritual that volunteer Denise looks forward to several days each week.
It’s play time at InSync Exotics Wildlife Rescue Center when five tigers find something new in their playground – a GoPro video camera hidden inside a log to record a “tigers-eye” view of their world.
I was not too happy when this curious tiger started to eat my camera at InSync Exotics Wildlife Rescue Center in Texas. Luckily he just wanted a taste and didn’t enjoy the GoPro Au Gratin.
InSync Exotics – “In The Beginning”. InSync Exotics Wildlife Rescue Center is dedicated to the rescue of abused, unwanted and neglected exotic felines. This video tells the surprising story of how the rescue center was founded.
InSync Exotics – “Home Improvements”. InSync Exotics Wildlife Rescue Center must constantly grow to house the ever-increasing number of abused, unwanted and neglected exotic felines looking for a permanent home.