NW Projections Film Festival-Mark Your Calendar!

Our film "The Faces of Change" made it into NW Projections Film Festival! VEERRYYY EXCITING!! The film festival takes place April 16th through 18th so mark your calendars!

Transcribing Interviews

Last night I started pending time transcribing each interview. It takes time but I know the film will be chalk full of amazing moment because of this effort.

Storyboarding

We are beginning the process of story boarding the hour version of the The Faces Of Change film. I will keep you posted on results with images of the drawings done over the next few months.

I am sooooo very excited about it! I wish I could do this full time. My Dad has a saying, though and it goes "If all wishes were horses, all men would ride." Odd saying. As a kid, I didn't quite get it. What did horses have to do with that candy bar that I really wanted? I think Grandpa said it to Dad when he was wishing for something as a kid and truth told...if I had kids, I probably would hear those words come flying out of my mouth.

Our 26 Minute Version Is Submitted to NW Projections

Yesterday, we submitted our 26 minute short version of our documentary film "The Faces Of Change" in the NW Projections Film Festival. Now I am totally stoked to complete the hour version. There are so many amazing stories ... With the help of master editor Bob Ridgley of Binary Recording Studio, I am in the process of creating a documentary film that is going to knock your socks off! When you hear the people we interviewed tell their stories, you can't help but be inspired.

Co produced by Clifford Creations & Binary Recording Studio

Awesome Modern Day Story About the Civil Rights Movement

"Be the change you want to see in the world", a quote by Gandhi. I can think of not better example than the African American children that sat at luncheon counters in the late 50's early 60's and asked to be served along side everyone else.

Gandhi inspired Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired Clara Luper. And Clara Luper inspired thousands throughout Oklahoma City and the nation.

Clara Luper is known as the mother of the civil rights movement. She was a high school teacher and leader of the Oklahoma City NAACP youth group. She taught thousands of kids (and adults) how to "be the change" they wanted to see in the world, including my father Bill Clifford (first white to join Oklahoma City demonstrations).

In our new documentary, "The Faces Of Change", co-producers Bob Ridgley and I interview these young demonstrators fifty years later. We call them "the kids" when we are editing (though their age range is 57 to 64). "The kids" talk about their activism in what becomes the longest peaceful demonstration in the history of America.

The demonstrations lasted five years 11 months ... imagine being a kid, going into a restaurant asking to be served only to be told no because of your skin color. AND, imagine being a kid and doing that for five years eleven months, visiting restaurant after restaurant with some restaurant owners finally saying yes, while other restaurant owners continually saying no. Imagine doing that year after year after year for nearly six years. Talk about tenacious! Talk about "being the change you want to see in the world"! Talk about giving the world such a gift, a gift called freedom!

A week away!

We are a week away from finishing our first half hour cut of "The Faces Of Change" film. Bob is has his polish cloth out right now. I have been assigned the job of getting the ok to use some music Bob found on the internet. Wish me luck!.

We Interview A Nun Who Went To Selma

We interview a former nun who went to Selma in 65 for the film "The Faces Of Change". She was young, she was enthusiastic and as long as she stayed by her older companion and fellow nun, she was allowed to travel from Oklahoma City to Selma Alabama to be a part of change. Her name is Martha King.