WHAT IS THIS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? DO Elephants Go To Heaven? explores the devastation caused by the belief that we are separate from animals and nature.
DO Elephants Go To Heaven explores the devastation caused by the human belief that we are separate from animals and nature. Like us, elephants feel joy, experience sadness, pain, pleasure, grief, all the emotions we feel. They are conscious of themselves as individuals, there are many examples of elephants showing compassion and coming to the aid of another species in danger. Watch our source videos below.
KICKSTARTER FILMMAKERS
ANIMAL COMMUNICATOR
Danielle Mackinno
Danielle MacKinnon has helped people and animals around the globe live better, happier, healthier lives. Her work has been featured on TV, radio, and in magazines throughout the US while her book, “Soul Contracts: Find Harmony and Unlock Your Brilliance” continues to assist thousands of people in breaking through their most difficult challenges. Danielle is also a featured teacher at many of the most highly-esteemed facilities throughout the country including the Kripalu Center and the Omega Institute. Recognized as one of the country’s “Best Psychic Mediums” by Psychic Investigator Bob Olson.
ACTRESS
Maggie Wheeler
Maggie Wheeler is best know in the U.S and internationally for her work as an actress in film, television and voice-over and most notably as the character of Janice on NBC’s hit series Friends. She is also a singer / song writer / choir director and workshop facilitator and has been teaching her vocal workshop “ Singing In The Stream “ in and out of Los Angeles for the past 20 years. She co-founded The Golden Bridge Community Choir in Los Angeles with her co-director Emile Hassan Dyer. It is an inclusive, intergenerational choir now in its 9th year.
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Kari Collins
Kari Collins is President of Ovni Inc, a real estate investment group that was founded to create greater wealth in women’s lives by providing leveraged investment opportunities through synergistic relationships. Kari has been in real estate development and sustainable design for the past 25 years in Seattle, WA. Kari is honored to be a part of the team by sharing her energy and skills to support elephant populations and to preserve the herds for future generations.
VIDEOGRAPHER
Lorri S. Moore
Lorri Moore began her career in 1995 as a Freelance Producer, Creative Director and Production consultant in media broadcast. As a producer, creative director, and videographer Lorri’s artistry and innovative ideas in all aspects of production translates on screen in beautiful shots, exciting scene work and great conceptual story telling. Some of her assignments have included work with Tantamount, Grid 41 Productions, Eagle Rock Entertainment, Patrick Stewart Productions, Snoop Dog Productions, Azteca Television, HBO, ABC, Church & Dwight, and Spike TV.
ASSISTANT
Harriet Croome
Harriet Croome graduated in 2013 with BA Hons History and Ancient History from the University of Exeter in the UK. She has since worked as a Film & Broadcast Assistant at the London Museum of Natural History and as a Media Production Volunteer at Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetland Trust. From May – July 2014 Harriet spent three months volunteering as a charity project manager and horseback safari guide in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Her passion is for documentary film making and in particular, Natural History documentary.
UX/UI DESIGNER/ASSISTANT
Brianna Baylis
Brianna Baylis graduated in 2014 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. She specializes in motion design and has a strong passion for the film industry. Brianna produced and assistant directed a short film titled “WACO,” selected for several film festivals. She worked as a UX/UI Designer for the new Dream Out Loud Productions website and was also the editor for Danielle Communicates With Elephants video.
FEATURED ARTISTS
PHOTOGRAPHER
PIETER RAS
Pieter was born in south Africa and has been fortunate to have lived in some of the worlds most remote places. He is a qualified safari guide, fishing guide and holds a degree in game ranch management. His love and understanding of the bush and its animals has provided himself with the opportunity to capture wildlife in its rawest form. He currently resides in Kenya with my wife, my best friend. In August 2014 he won the audience choice award for the World Elephant Day Photo Competition held by Africa Geographic Magazine and the Conservation Action Trust.
FINE ARTIST
AMANDA NEDHAM
Amanda Nedham is an artist from Toronto who recently received her MFA in painting from RISD and is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her studio practice takes a mixed media approach, but is firmly rooted in drawing. For the last few years her work has been informed by mapping a taxonomy of funerary rights and memorials, often culling from museums and historical archives and more recently filtering these through the souvenir. Her work traces a desire to understand how people relate to one another on a spectrum that ranges from murder and mourning to raising questions around exchange and empathy.
ANIMATOR
SIMON BOJEDAI
Simon Bojedai is an artist and animator from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Because he is passionate about art and animation, he mastered different kinds of computer graphic software and artistic skills. He specializes mostly in video game animation. Simon also enjoys working with VFX, 3D art, and animation. Simon was the animator for the Louis Lock true story of elephant compassion found on our website.
www.summersworkshop.com/studio_gallery/
simon.bojedai@gmail.com
FINE ARTIST
NICOLAS SZUHODOVSZKY
Nicolas Szuhodovszky was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1975 and educated in the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest during the years 1999-2004. The artist’s aim is to, within the framework of classicist technique, capture a vision that is hard to render, although the motif in itself often may be casual. Nicolas’ work shows a personal vision of visual imprints from a modern context. This vision is marked and inspired by realist painters from older times, but becomes highly his own. Nicolas drew the blue watercolor baby elephant featured in our shop.
http://www.szuhodovszky.com/index.html