Waiting for Superman

When Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim sought out a facility for the digital intermediate work on his powerful documentary, Waiting for Superman, he took his project to Company 3 and colorist Stephen Nakamura. Nakamura, who has brought his sensitivity and technical savvy to blockbuster features including James Bond action thriller Quantum of Solace and the upcoming Russell Crowe adventure Robin Hood, was thrilled with the opportunity to apply his talents to this decidedly smaller, independent film, made up primarily of video-shot interviews and a very diverse array of archival material.



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Finding Reasons for Hope

The thirty-minute documentary A New Hope takes a journey deep inside the walls of Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary, a prison located on an 18,000-acre property that is engulfed by the Mississippi River and named for the birthplace of its former slaves. Angola, a maximum-security facility that is home to more than 5,000 inmates, was once called the “bloodiest prison in the South” and espoused a simple philosophy: lock up the men and throw away the key.

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Documenting a Debt Repaid

A Small Act, which premiered in U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance 2010, tells the inspirational story of an impoverished boy in Kenya, Chris Mburu, whose life was dramatically changed when an anonymous Swedish woman sponsored his primary education. Shot in the town of Västerås, Sweden; in Geneva, Switzerland; and in the lush landscape of Kenya's central highlands, A Small Act tells the story of the adult Chris Mburu, now a Harvard-educated human-rights lawyer, who hopes to replicate the generosity he once received by founding his own scholarship fund to aid a new generation of Kenyans.

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