American Songwriter
"Jeff Wilson Wilson is a filmmaker in Nashville, Tennessee. He's worked in major films and TV productions and, most recently, filmed a documentary following the American Songwriter and BMI sponsored Ten Out of Tenn Tour. This short documentary, Any Day Now, premiered to a packed theatre at the Nashville Film Festival. He took a quick breather from his current projects to answer our questions..."
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The Tennessean Movie Review: Any Day Now
"I think we realized there's strength in numbers," Nashville singer-songwriter Katie Herzig offers by way of back-story early into Any Day Now, a documentary that chronicles the summer 2008 tour of local pop collective Ten Out of Tenn...
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Nashville Scene
"The festival also hosts the premiere of Any Day Now (9:30 p.m. April 21, 1 p.m. April 22), Jeff Wyatt Wilson's filmed record of the "Ten out of Tenn" touring musicians' package. The featured artists are Andy Davis, Butterfly Boucher, Erin McCarley, Griffin House, Jeremy Lister, KS Rhoads, Katie Herzig, Matthew Perryman Jones, Trent Dabbs, Tyler James and Will Sayles. Rhoads' Crash Test Dummies imitation, Boucher's mild flash of temper and James' dancing provide some of the offstage highlights."
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The Tennessean Movie Review: Any Day Now
"I think we realized there's strength in numbers," Nashville singer-songwriter Katie Herzig offers by way of back-story early into Any Day Now, a documentary that chronicles the summer 2008 tour of local pop collective Ten Out of Tenn...
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Wilson Independent Releases Video With Rare Footage of TN Coal Disaster
NASHVILLE, TN/USA (December 31, 2008) - A video containing rare footage of the recent Tennessee coal spill, including interviews with local residents and close up footage of the contamination, has been released online by Wilson Independent. The spill occurred on Monday Dec. 15, 2008, in Roane County, TN., and is regarded as one of the worst environmental disasters in US history.
Coal and ash slurry, the normal byproduct of coal-fired electricity generation, is usually stored in retention ponds near coal plants. Early Monday morning, the catastrophic failure of a retention pond near the small towns of Harriman and Kingston, TN, released over a half billion gallons of potentially toxic sludge into the area, damaging 15 homes and injuring one resident as it knocked his home off its foundation. The flood of sludge also entered tributaries to the Tennessee River causing a 20-foot river swell. The contaminated rivers put the water supply at risk for major cities like Chattanooga, and for millions of other people in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. Altogether the spill left over 400 acres of land covered by several feet of coal ash, mud, and contaminated water. 2.6 million cubic yards of slurry was released, over 40 times the amount of contaminated sludge released in the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989.
Following the spill, access to the contaminated sites was highly restricted. Aerial shots of the affected area were aired by local television news, and amateur photographers captured images of large numbers of dead fish washed up on the riverbanks, as well as still shots of the area covered in mud and ash, but interview footage and close up video of the actual damage was nonexistent. On Dec. 24, 2008, Jeff Wilson of Wilson Independent, a Nashville based film and video production company, along with fashion model and environmental activist Summer Rayne Oakes, who has been a television correspondent for CNN, Fox News, MTV, and The Discovery Channel, traveled to the site of the catastrophe to conduct interviews and document the event. The resulting video, Swan Pond Road: The Kingston Coal Disaster, shot and edited by Wilson and hosted by Oakes, was released online and was immediately posted by several prominent environmental sites including treehugger.com, watthead.com, cleantechcollective.com and itsgettinghotinhere.org.
To view the video, visit any of these sites:
- http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=50341442
- http://watthead.blogspot.com/2009/01/video-swan-pond-road-kingston-coal.html
- http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/01/08/swan-pond-road-the-kingston-coal-disaster
- http://www.vimeo.com/2764930
- http://cleantechcollective.com/TheEnergyCollective/32747
- http://www.thegreengirls.com/blog/?tag=/swan+pond+road+disaster
For more information on Jeff Wyatt Wilson or Wilson Independent, contact Bo Brannen or visit wilsonindependent.com. For additional information about Summer Rayne Oakes, visit summerrayne.net.
Wilson Independent is a full service film and video production company based out of Nashville, TN.
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Universal Music Group Releases Music Videos Produced by Wilson Independent, In Advance of Feature Documentary Any Day Now
NASHVILLE, TN/USA (November 28, 2008)- Universal Music Group has released six music videos produced and filmed by Jeff Wilson of Wilson Independent, a Nashville based independent film company. All six videos feature live in studio performances by Universal Republic recording artist Erin McCarley, and K.S. Rhoads, two of the artists to be featured in the upcoming Wilson Independent film Any Day Now. The videos were initially released simultaneously through Universal Music Group's YouTube channel and Erin McCarley's Myspace page. Thus far the videos have generated nearly a quarter million views since their release on December 24th, 2008.
McCarley's music has appeared on television shows like Gray's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, and 90210. She has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Her new album, "Love, Save the Empty," was released December 30th and rose to number 9 on iTunes Top Albums in the first week of January. The upcoming Wilson Independent film, Any Day Now, is a feature length documentary about Ten out of Tenn, a national concert tour co-headlined by ten Nashville artists. The film is scheduled for release in mid-March, and will be screened at the Nashville Film Festival.
To view the Erin McCarley live in studio performance videos, please visit Universal Music Groups YouTube Channel, or Erin McCarley's MySpace page. For additional information about Any Day Now, the Ten out of Tenn documentary film, contact Bo Brannen or visit wilsonindependent.com. For additional information on Erin McCarley, or for samples of her music and products, contact Universal Music Group or visit erinmccarley.com.
Wilson Independent is a full service film and video production company based out of Nashville, TN.
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