Happy New Year!

To ring in the new year we have decided to celebrate the past 1.5 years since Emergence Pictures' opened by creating a 2-minute retrospective of some of our favorite projects. Check it out by clicking on this link!

We are also excited to announce that since August of 2008, we have upgraded to HDV! This upgrade of format has made a huge impact on the visual quality of our work. You can see examples of projects shot in HDV in our Our Reel, Stillwater Mills, and Riverview at Terra Springs.

Most of you are aware of our award-winning documentary film work, as well as our documentary-style videos for nonprofits and education, but you may not be aware of a growing part of our business, videos highlighting local residential and commercial development projects. What does this mean? Check out our story below about our work for BOLD Marketing to highlight two condominium projects in Stillwater, Minnesota (my home town!).

Finally, we would like to introduce you to another client that is changing our world, Praxis International. Their story proves that lasting and far-reaching change starts at a grassroots level. Check out their story below!

Thank you for your continued business and interest in our work! Looking forward to sharing more stories in the spring!

Stay tuned!

Dawn Mikkelson
Founder
Emergence Pictures

Happy homeowners at Stillwater Mills.

This fall, BOLD Marketing commissioned Emergence Pictures to create a documentary-style video that reflected the amenities, sophistication, and warmth that differentiate Stillwater Mills from the rest of the condominium projects in the Stillwater area. The result, a warm and inviting look at the people who live in Stillwater Mills that made even our urban-living crew consider relocation to downtown Stillwater.

This is the 3rd time that Emergence Pictures' documentary-style work has been utilized for real estate projects like this.

Simultaneously, while producing the video at Stillwater Mills, BOLD Marketing also commissioned a video to highlight Riverview at Terra Springs.

For this project, we created a mock television program with talent Katie Novalany, who toured one of the beautiful homes in Riverview at Terra Springs. The result, a video with a more hip look and feel, appealing to those who are looking for incredible St. Croix River views and interior design.

This winter we had the honor of directing and editing a 30-minute documentary called Building A Coordinated Community Response: The History of the Duluth Model in collaboration with Praxis International. This video highlights the international impact of the small community of Duluth, Minnesota on community response to domestic violence. Through the stories of the founders of the the Duluth Model, viewers learn how this community created the foundation for a lasting and profoundly effective system to address domestic violence. The Duluth Model is being used by communities across the United States and around the world including New Zealand, China, Ireland, and Germany.

The video was created for our client, Praxis International, Inc., to help train other communities in the Duluth Model of a Coordinated Community Response. Praxis is a nonprofit research and training organization that works toward the elimination of violence in the lives of women and children. They work with local, statewide, and national reform initiatives to bridge the gap between what people need and what institutions provide. Since 1996, they have worked with advocacy organizations, intervention agencies, and inter-agency collaborations to create a clear and cooperative agenda for social change in their communities.

We are honored to have been part of this important work.