Video is probably the most communicative form of media available on the internet today and the demand is increasing. Combined with the capabilities of social networks, blogs, and other web applications such as Facebook, why wouldn’t you be involved? The first step to a successful video marketing campaign is creating engaging content that drives viewers to perform your desired outcome. Red Door Media, Maine videographers, have be the recipient of two Maine Documentary Film Competion awards. We know the ins and outs of video, how to create, produce and then get it on the web.

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OURTOWN
PRODUCER: WENDY HEBB
DIRECTOR: MICHAEL RICHARD           
EDITOR: DOREEN CONBOY

One small town.

One proposed Wal-Mart SuperCenter.

Would a mega-retailer benefit the town?

                                         Or forever alter the small town way of life?

OURTOWN follows the story that unfolded in the fall of 2005 when Wal-Mart announced plans to build a SuperCenter in a small coastal Maine town.  The range of citizen responses soon created a fissure that divided the community.  On one side were those who wanted convenience, jobs, increased tax revenues, and rolled back prices.  Opposing them were those who sought to protect the local landscape and economy from out-of-scale and out-of-town corporate colonization. 

For many of the individuals who participated in the debate, and for the two young mothers who decided that somebody had to do something - and maybe it would have to be them - the experience ignited democratic ideals considered beyond reach of the common citizen. Ourtown follows the struggle of small-town activists challenged by the largest corporation in the world. Ultimately, the film asks the questions: what kind of town do you want to live in?  What is at stake?  Who gets to decide?  

"It made me proud to watch your film and see that people can still make the key difference in preserving the qualities of life that have become, all too often, both elusive and fleeting".  Geoff Walker, attorney

"I loved the film and was quite overcome by it.  It was a powerful documentary; as good as any I've seen".  Pat Baybutt, Portsmouth, NH

See the trailer at the OURTOWN website, www.ourtownmaine.com.

Buy the DVD, Amazon.com.

Closing the Circle
PRODUCER: WENDY HEBB
DIRECTOR: MICHAEL RICHARD           
EDITOR: DOREEN CONBOY

Closing the Circle is a documentary film from Red Door Media. As anyone who has visited this midcoast town in May and June knows, the annual alewife run up a two hundred year old fish ladder is a spectacular sight. More than a hundred thousand fish swim up the Damariscotta River, wedge their silvery bodies into the narrow confines of the rock fishway, and make their way up to Damariscotta Lake, accompanied by the noisy and raucous attentions of cormorants, gulls, loons, osprey and eagles. Closing the Circle is a film about the annual migration of Alewives and a history of the village of Damariscotta Mills.Proceeds from the sale of the film will benefit the Alewife Initiative. Copies of this film will be given to local historical societies and libraries, and schools on the Pemaquid Peninsula.