Production Resumes on Young Hemingway Documentary
Documentary on Hemingway's youth in Northern Michigan filmed at Windemere.
Petoskey, MI, August 01, 2013 --(PR.com)-- On July 21, the 114th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s birth, Starbright Media Corporation (SMC) announced the resumption of production on its planned hour-long television documentary entitled “Young Hemingway: Finding His Muse in Northern Michigan.”
Production began last spring and included several days of videotaping in and around the Hemingway family cottage, “Windemere,” on Walloon Lake and at Pennsylvania State University (PSU), the home of the Hemingway Letters Project.
“We had to delay further work on the Hemingway project until we finished final preparation for our two-hour public TV special on President Eisenhower,” Colburn added. Eisenhower’s Secret War, Colburn’s fifth major production on Eisenhower since 1991, premiered in May and has aired on public television stations around the country, reaching approximately 85 percent of the nation’s viewing audience, according to American Public Television of Boston.
In nearby historic Bay View in June of last year Colburn interviewed many Hemingway scholars attending the biennial conference of the international Hemingway Society. “We already have the foundation for a good program,” Colburn said, “and we hope to finish production by the end of the year.
“We expect by the end of summer to complete all exterior videotaping for “Young Hemingway” in Northern Michigan,” Colburn added. Interviews with Hemingway scholars will continue in the fall, he said. SMC plans to complete its research of the visual archives later this year and its editing of the program in early 2014. If the schedule holds, Colburn said, the program will be ready for a June premiere at the Hemingway Society’s next conference in Venice, Italy, in June, 2014.
Hemingway, born in 1899, spent his summers in and around Walloon Lake every year of his life until he left for Paris in December, 1921. His experiences in the woods and on the waters of Northern Michigan provide the foundation for much of his writing throughout his life, especially his short stories about the adventures of “Nick Adams.” His personal letters from this period of his life were published in late 2011 by the Cambridge University Press and provide a fresh focus the documentary, Colburn said.
According to Prof. Sandra Spanier, Director of the Hemingway Letters Project at PSU, and General Editor of the planned 16 volumes, “Unguarded and never intended for publication, Hemingway’s letters constitute his autobiography in the continuous present tense. They enrich our understanding of his creative processes, offer insider insights into the twentieth-century literary scene, and document the making and marketing of an American icon.”
Prof. Linda Patterson Miller, Chair of the project’s Advisory Committee, noted that “The fresh voice that emerges in these letters is that of the young Hemingway, an ambitious hard-working youth, but not yet a legend, not yet “Papa.” She goes on to state that the letters “promise to challenge shop-worn myths and assumptions about Hemingway and his transformative art.”
Both Prof. Spanier and Prof. Miller have been interviewed by Colburn along with Advisory Committee member Scott Donaldson, one of the country’s top literary biographers. Colburn has also interviewed Ernest Mainland, son of Ursula “Sunny” Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s favorite sibling who kept the “Windemere” cottage in the family for many decades. The cottage was renovated and remodeled in the 1990s by Mr. Mainland and his wife, Judy, and it remains today their private residence. Mainland has endorsed the production, saying that his mother would be proud of an effort that plans to “tell the truth” about her Nobel Prize-winning brother. “She saw her brother maligned so many times by well meaning scholars she finally gave up on them,” Mainland said.
Segments of Colburn’s interviews are available on the project’s website, www.hemingwaysmichigan.com.
Because this documentary is largely about Hemingway and the communities around “Windemere, Colburn says his non-profit company has made it possible for anyone to become a partial funder of the program. Donations will be accepted for one more week on the Indiegogo “crowdfunding” site, www.indiegogo.com/younghemingway, he added.
For more information, contact the project, info@hemingwaysmichigan.com.
Production began last spring and included several days of videotaping in and around the Hemingway family cottage, “Windemere,” on Walloon Lake and at Pennsylvania State University (PSU), the home of the Hemingway Letters Project.
“We had to delay further work on the Hemingway project until we finished final preparation for our two-hour public TV special on President Eisenhower,” Colburn added. Eisenhower’s Secret War, Colburn’s fifth major production on Eisenhower since 1991, premiered in May and has aired on public television stations around the country, reaching approximately 85 percent of the nation’s viewing audience, according to American Public Television of Boston.
In nearby historic Bay View in June of last year Colburn interviewed many Hemingway scholars attending the biennial conference of the international Hemingway Society. “We already have the foundation for a good program,” Colburn said, “and we hope to finish production by the end of the year.
“We expect by the end of summer to complete all exterior videotaping for “Young Hemingway” in Northern Michigan,” Colburn added. Interviews with Hemingway scholars will continue in the fall, he said. SMC plans to complete its research of the visual archives later this year and its editing of the program in early 2014. If the schedule holds, Colburn said, the program will be ready for a June premiere at the Hemingway Society’s next conference in Venice, Italy, in June, 2014.
Hemingway, born in 1899, spent his summers in and around Walloon Lake every year of his life until he left for Paris in December, 1921. His experiences in the woods and on the waters of Northern Michigan provide the foundation for much of his writing throughout his life, especially his short stories about the adventures of “Nick Adams.” His personal letters from this period of his life were published in late 2011 by the Cambridge University Press and provide a fresh focus the documentary, Colburn said.
According to Prof. Sandra Spanier, Director of the Hemingway Letters Project at PSU, and General Editor of the planned 16 volumes, “Unguarded and never intended for publication, Hemingway’s letters constitute his autobiography in the continuous present tense. They enrich our understanding of his creative processes, offer insider insights into the twentieth-century literary scene, and document the making and marketing of an American icon.”
Prof. Linda Patterson Miller, Chair of the project’s Advisory Committee, noted that “The fresh voice that emerges in these letters is that of the young Hemingway, an ambitious hard-working youth, but not yet a legend, not yet “Papa.” She goes on to state that the letters “promise to challenge shop-worn myths and assumptions about Hemingway and his transformative art.”
Both Prof. Spanier and Prof. Miller have been interviewed by Colburn along with Advisory Committee member Scott Donaldson, one of the country’s top literary biographers. Colburn has also interviewed Ernest Mainland, son of Ursula “Sunny” Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s favorite sibling who kept the “Windemere” cottage in the family for many decades. The cottage was renovated and remodeled in the 1990s by Mr. Mainland and his wife, Judy, and it remains today their private residence. Mainland has endorsed the production, saying that his mother would be proud of an effort that plans to “tell the truth” about her Nobel Prize-winning brother. “She saw her brother maligned so many times by well meaning scholars she finally gave up on them,” Mainland said.
Segments of Colburn’s interviews are available on the project’s website, www.hemingwaysmichigan.com.
Because this documentary is largely about Hemingway and the communities around “Windemere, Colburn says his non-profit company has made it possible for anyone to become a partial funder of the program. Donations will be accepted for one more week on the Indiegogo “crowdfunding” site, www.indiegogo.com/younghemingway, he added.
For more information, contact the project, info@hemingwaysmichigan.com.
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