KDN Films is a television, web and documentary content creation and production company. We produce stuff all over the map: museum films, web video, documentary films, TV programs and commercials. The company resources are deep, comprised of a mix of film and TV people, with different interests and skills, who throw themselves into everything they do and consistently produce brilliant work.

We offer one service that I believe is hard to find in this world: clarity. Not clarity about the meaning of life, can’t help you there, but clarity in telling a story.

Please look at our work. We would love to work with you!

Ed Moore		 Recent Projects:

Eero Saarinen:
Shaping the Future

DnA - Design and Architecture
on KCRW:
Ray Kappe House
Neutra VDL House

True To Form
 
 
 
 
News
Webcasts for KCRW’s DnA Design and Architecture Program
KDN Films is co-production partner with KCRW to produce monthly webcasts for KCRW’s DnA – Design and Architecture radio program hosted by Frances Anderton. “It’s a great privilege to have KCRW as a partner, one of North America’s most listened to public radio stations,” remarked co-producer and Los Angeles native Dylan Robertson. [ link ]

Lost in Hawaii Documentary uses Cinevate Brevis 35mm Adapter
In April 2008 KDN Films was on location for 8 days of shooting on the Big Island and Oahu for a documentary film about Japanese Buddhist Temples in Hawaii, produced and directed by Bill Ferehawk and Dylan Robertson. All of the scenics were shot using a Sony HVR V1U with a Brevis 35mm adapter and Nikon lenses. The soft image quality and depth of field control perfectly captures the sense of nostalgia and peering into the past that director, Bill Ferehawk, wanted to achieve for this film.

Here are some examples of the scenic footage using the Brevis.

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United States Embassy in Berlin Exhibition Film
KDN Films is in post-production for an exhibition film about the architectural design of the new U.S. Embassy in Berlin. The film will be exhibited in Berlin for the July 4, 2008 opening of the embassy.

Documentary Film about New Urbanism in the Cayman Islands
KDN Films shot in Grand Cayman for a documentary film, directed by Ed Moore and produced by Bill Ferehawk, that follows a 10-day design charrette for a New Urbanist town in Grand Cayman led by Andres Duany. The film provides a rare glimpse into the intersection of North American urban design principles and Caribbean culture.

 


Online Virtual Exhibition for Schwartz Architects at National Building Museum
KDN Films is interactive content producer for an online exhibition about David M. Schwartz Architects. Directed by Yale curator Dean Sakamoto, the exhibit will highlight Schwartz’s work from the 1970s to the present and will be exhibited in September 2008 on the website of the National Building Museum. In May 2008 KDN Films was on location in Dallas/Forth Worth with the principals of Schwartz Architects shooting footage for the project.

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Recent Projects
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

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Screening within the Eero Saarinen Exhibition at the National Building Museum.

This documentary chronicles the life and work of one of the most prolific, controversial and influential architects of postwar America, Eero Saarinen.
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DNA - Design and Architecture on KCRW
2008 - Webcast on KCRW.com
Episode 1: Ray Kappe House

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Airing on KCRW.com.

Each web program for KCRW’s web site looks at a favorite building in Los Angeles.

Produced for KCRW’s DnA program and hosted by Frances Anderton.
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DNA - Design and Architecture on KCRW
Episode 2: Richard Neutra VDL House

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Airing on KCRW.com.

Each web program for KCRW’s web site looks at a favorite building in Los Angeles.

Produced for KCRW’s DnA program and hosted by Frances Anderton.
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True To Form

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Recently completed.

The life and work of Hawaii’s mid-century modern architect, Vladimir Ossipoff, is examined in this 30 minute documentary produced for the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

Featured on the cover of the May 2008 issue of Metropolis.
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