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Birth of a Documentary – Shooting Sunshine Finale Pt. 1

July 5, 2016 By Ron Dawson

After 5-1/2 years, Mixed in America: Little Mixed Sunshine if FINALLY finished. Here’s part 1 of a 2-part finale of the mini-series where we’ve followed the film’s progress.

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FYI: The first and third photos are the real Imahni. The center photo is the actress playing her in middle school.

Throughout this first season of Radio Film School, we’ve followed the progress of my short film documentary “Little Mixed Sunshine,” the first installment of my “Mixed in America” short film documentary series which tells the stories of biracial people in America. So much has gone into the making of this film that I want to discuss. If you’ve been listening to the show and the mini-series “Shooting Sunshine,” you’ve heard a lot of the creative challenges I’ve faced. These are all important lessons from which any filmmaker can glean valuable insight. And in part 2 of this mini-series finale we’ll get into the details of the final creative decisions I made and how I arrived at them. That will be next week.

This week I want to tackle a more complex topic—that is the roles that race and culture have played in my life, and how a filmmaker’s personal background can have such a profound effect on his or her work. Show regulars JD & Yolanda Cochran return as they give me critical feedback on the rough draft of the film I shared with them back in March.

And as is often the case on this show, we start with a couple of funny, yet poignant stories to set the stage.

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Music in this Episode

Music was curated from FreeMusicArchive.org. In order of appearance, the music in this episode:

  • A Thousand Years (Instrumental) by Christina Perri courtesy of Song Freedom (All rights reserved)
  • Fog by Sergey Chermisinov (CC BY)
  • virgo indigo by Fog Lake (CC BY)
  • Tennesee Hayride by Jason Sha (CC BY)
  • Back to the Woods by Jason Shaw (CC BY)
  • Acoustic Blues by Jason Shaw (CC BY)
  • Remembering Past Everything by Pipe Choir (CC BY-)
  • Undercover Vampire Policeman by Chris Zabriskie (CC BY)
  • A Thousand Years (with Vocals) by Christina Perri courtesy of Song Freedom (All rights reserved)

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As promised, here is the photo of Sean and me, “Crockett & Tubbs”!

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Filed Under: Filmmaker's Journey, Shooting Sunshine Tagged With: culture, filmmking, race

About Ron Dawson

Ron is a writer, filmmaker, speaker, author, coach, and host of Radio Film School. He does brand and content marketing for the media and tech industries at Blade Ronner Media.

Radio Film School: A Filmmaker’s Journey

This is the main series of Radio Film School. In season 1 we're exploring the theme: finding your voice and developing a signature style.

Radio Film School: Shooting Sunshine

The Radio Film School segment wherein host Ron Dawson tracks the progress of his documentary short film series "Mixed in America", episode 1, "Little Mixed Sunshine."

Radio Film School
Host Ron Dawson takes you on a journey to discover what it means to be a filmmaker. A show unlike any other for the passionate and aspiring filmmaker, Radio Film School is more of an audio documentary than a traditional podcast. Think of it as This American Life for filmmakers.

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