Home
Raincrow Film is a team of filmmakers dedicated to improving our craft of storytelling through the art of filmmaking. We seek to discover the profound connections among people, animals, culture, behavior, and the environment. This includes an emphasis on environmental issues, sustainability, agriculture, and innovative green culture technology, as well as their global impacts and local practices.
Our interviews are powerful. We find the beauty and character of life – good or bad. We strive to find the deeper story and relay that in an evocative, artistic, and accurate manner. We create extraordinary films about new ideas and possibilities using stunning images, natural depth and complexity of sound, and atmospheric music to fit the story.
November 27th, 2011
Watch the full version of Occam’s Grazer!
For a limited time Raincrow Film is offering a free Youtube version of the full Occam’s Grazer video!
Occam’s Grazer provides an introduction to Holistic Management and holistic grazing as well as many powerful insights, philosophies, and useful ideas from people who are using the framework and practices every day. This video is a must for anyone who wants to learn more about taking a holistic approach to grazing in their ranch business, how it works, and the potential benefits. It was designed to be a resource for ranchers, potential ranchers, environmentalists, and educators, but is also being well received by the general public.
If you would like a DVD copy of Occam’s Grazer you can purchase it here.
November 19, 2011
Asadah Kirkland
Another short video clip for our wonderful client, Robbyn Peters Bennett and Stopspanking.org. These discussions are a part of several interviews conducted at the Global Summit on Ending Corporal Punishment in Dallas, TX.
Educator and author, Asadah Kirkland, discusses the importance of reaching out and listening closely to parents in order to understand their reasons for spanking their children. She argues that only then can we know how to help move parents away from hitting and toward non-violent strategies of discipline. In her view, only by convincing families to ban spanking in their own homes will we have enough support to ban corporal punishment in the U.S.
Tom Tranuf Photo
9/19/2011 Raincrow Film celebrates its latest release, “Human Rights, Child Rights and Corporal Punishment”. This is a short, educational video composed for Robbyn Peters Bennett and www.stopspanking.org. Many of you know us personally, and understand that we are not essentially controversial by nature. And we do realize intimately that this is a very controversial issue—the friends and family that surround us, support us and love us are on both sides of the fence when is comes to spanking, smacking or whipping kids. As soon as we took on this project we realized that everybody has strong opinions on this issue, regardless of whether or not they have kids. When we first started filmmaking our instructor informed us that there is no fence riding in film. One must take a stand; have a point of view. Yet, at the same time, there is a struggle to find the truth behind every story.
Peter Newell
In this video, we highlight Mr. Peter Newell, a long-time advocate for ending corporal punishment of children. He approaches the issue as a human rights advocate who believes that children are often outside the human rights laws. We found Peter’s explanation to be based on sound reasoning and that his argument left us with a beckoning question: why not apply the same laws to children that protect adults from physical attack and harm?
This is the first video in a series that explores reasons to end corporal punishment as a form of discipline for kids. We hope it does encourage healthy debate. What better thing to discuss than our literal future—personified in the faces of our children.
Paul Mobley
Raincrow Film is featuring nationally acclaimed photographer Paul Mobley in their recent educational video, “Holistic Management for the People“.
We have had many exceptional interviews with dedicated folks trying to make a positive difference on their land and in the world. Last spring we interviewed Brian Marshall, a rancher and Holistic Management educator from Guyra, Australia. He gave such a wonderful interview (and we love his accent) that we’ve been working on short clips to help educate the public on what exactly Holistic Management is. In this segment, we wanted to focus on a primary facet of this system—people and community. Brian’s words reveal the both global and community oriented nature of Holistic Management perfectly. We needed images that could convey that same essence, and we found it in spades in Paul Mobley’s book, American Farmer.
Paul captures perfectly both the resolve and empathy we have come to appreciate in those farmers and neighbors that we have worked with so closely.
Occam’s Grazer – the full length video is now available! For more information, visit our Store .
Featured video: Trailer for Occam’s Grazer
