Videos
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At Wonderstone Films, our work is focused on helping arts and nonprofit organizations. We strive to provide high quality, affordable videos, photos, and films for our clients with professionalism and kindness.
Past clients include: Senior Charity Care Foundation, Clever Octopus, Repertory Dance Theater, Project Apis m., The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, Ririe Woodbury Dance Company, Stephen Brown Dance, Pygmalion Productions, Wasatch Community Gardens, and more. |
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transporting honey bees for almond pollination
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Every year in late January Millions of honey bee colonies must be transported from 40 states to California for the annual almond bloom. It takes a monumental effort by hundreds of beekeepers, truck drivers, and others to make this event happen. The result is pollination of 80% of the world's supply of almonds.
This fascinating mini-documentary follows about 800 honey bee colonies from an indoor storage facility in Idaho to almond orchards in the Central Valley of California. |
Gifted Music school
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"An Evening at McCune Mansion" features exceptional young artists performing on the violin at the beautiful, historic McCune Mansion in Salt Lake City, UT
The mission of the Gifted Music School is: "Forging a new standard of music education, the Gifted Music School is a place where children are motivated to learn, develop discipline, character and the skills they need to be productive leaders in society." |
Wasatch community gardens campus video
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The mission of Wasatch Community Gardens is to empower people to grow and eat healthy, organic, local food. Since 1989, we have provided children, adults, and families in Salt Lake County with access to land and education for growing and eating fresh produce, while building and nurturing community connections through gardening and healthy food. We accomplish this through four main programs: Community Garden, Community Education, Youth and School Garden, and Job Training Programs.
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Rose Exposed "I Wanna hold your hand"
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2020 has been a challenging year for performing arts. We had the honor of filming the annual Salt Lake City tradition - "Rose Exposed" for a virtual performance. We are so glad to be able to help people connect with the arts in an era of social distancing, and thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this project and working with this group of amazing performing artists!
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breeding and testing varroa resistant bees
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In December, 2019 we traveled to the USDA Honey Bee Lab in Baton Rouge, LA to continue the amazing story of Breeding Varroa Resistant bees.
Beekeepers have been forced to manage Varroa to keep their bees alive for 30 years. Pesticides are not an optimal or sustainable solution for Varroa. Behavioral traits of Varroa resistance in honey bees have been known and used at smaller scales successfully treatment free. Integrating Varroa resistance with traits suitable for commercial beekeeping, and scaling up queen production to commercial levels, is the goal of the Hilo Bee project. www.hilobees.com |
Senior charity care foundation
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The Senior Charity Care Foundation is an amazing nonprofit making the lives of Seniors better every day by providing affordable, mobile dental, vision and hearing clinics.
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REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE
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In this time of global pandemic and worldwide uncertainty we were asked by Salt Lake's Repertory Dance Theatre to help create an inspirational message to all the dancers and dreamer out there. This is a message from RDT reminding us all to keep dancing during these difficult and troubling times.
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bee and butterfly habitat fund
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Every year more and more of the American Midwest is plowed under and turned into farmland for soy and corn. In 2017 Project Apis m. in partnership with the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund hired us to tell the story of how they are working with famers around Jamestown, North Dakota to plant beneficial flowers in the margins of agriculture to give pollinators like honey bees a better chance of survival in an increasingly hostile environment.
https://beeandbutterflyfund.org/ |
amor catracho
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In 2018 we motorcycled up to the town of San Jose, La Paz in the high mountains of Honduras to film the story of Vinda Morán and her 6 acre coffee farm. The name “Amor Catracho” represents Vinda’s love of her country and her farm. With our help in making a video and a website Vinda hopes to encourage other travelers like ourselves to visit her town and experience what life is like in a small village world renown for its coffee.
https://amorcatracho.weebly.com/ |
project apis m. varroa field trials
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One of the most promising areas of honeybee research is the selective breeding of queens that demonstrate the ability to rid their colonies of varroa mites. In 2017 Project Apis m. in partnership with the USDA Honey Bee Lab, hired us to film the field trials of these queen bees in active commercial bee colonies in North Dakota. The highly technical nature of the trials required us to focus our attention on the simple yet critical counting, weighing, and measuring of the colonies and to make science appear on video as important as it is on paper.
https://www.projectapism.org/ |
clever octopus
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The issue of what to do with materials once they have served their initial purpose is a question being answered by the non-profit The Clever Octopus in Salt Lake City. In 2019 we filmed a short promotional video to encourage artists, teachers, and community leaders to support the efforts of this wonderful organization to divert waste away from landfills and back into use. Waste isn’t dead!
http://www.cleveroctopus.org/ |
ancestry DNA Benin africa
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Kieron Graham, an AncestryDNA customer, was adopted, and last December through an AncestryDNA test connection, found out his brother was a student at the same college with the same major. In the time since, Kieron has dug deeper into his family history. Scott traveled with Kieron back to Benin, Africa to film his connection with his ancestors and the country of his birth-mother.
https://www.ancestry.com/ |
The nature conservancy half moon reef
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The Nature Conservancy is working to restore Half Moon Reef, an underwater oyster colony in the heart of Matagorda Bay, Texas. We filmed barges stacked with rocks from Missouri being unloaded by heavy equipment into the Gulf waters, and interviewed the scientists whose dream of revitalizing an overfished waterway was coming to light. The goal to recreate the failing oyster beds of the gulf coast has implications far beyond anything we will live to see. It is truly a project of the future.
https://www.nature.org |
blue lapis light
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Scott has been working with the Austin based aerial dance company Blue Lapis Light for over 10 years. Creating beautiful, emotional videos that faithfully recreate each site-specific performance has been Scott’s greatest challenge and pleasure. This video is for fundraising to help Blue Lapis apply for grant money, reach out to donors, and engage with the public.
https://www.bluelapislight.org/ |
b-sharp youth music program
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Thanks to the Goff Family Foundation the B-Sharp Youth Music program is giving kids a chance to learn how to play musical instruments from professional musicians in a free after school program in the Dallas-Forth Worth area. We filmed students taking classes over the course of a week culminating in the annual performance at the Bass Performance Hall. Watching kids learn a sophisticated skill at such a young age was the best part of this job.
https://bsharpkids.org/ |
komen foundation central texas
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The mission of the Komen Foundation to support women undergoing treatment for breast cancer comes with a high cost. This video was shown at the annual fundraiser gala and helped raise over $600,000 for the Central Texas chapter. With those kinds of donations the Foundation sure can help a lot of women. https://komengreatercetx.org/
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