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The Hollow Earth Expedition is the Greatest Expedition in the History of the World.
The Appeal of Documentaries - An Overview
The feature documentary film market has exploded over the last several years. Recent box office successes such as March of the Penguins, An Inconvenient Truth and Grizzly Man continue to fuel growth established a few years ago with the breakthrough success of Fahrenheit 9/11 which earned over $120 million worldwide. Feature documentaries are now finding their market, revolutionizing the model of how documentaries get financed, produced
and marketed. Reflecting that independent docs are a significant source of revenue, the major studios and distributors now have specialized divisions to acquire and distribute documentaries. Hundreds of acquisition executives comb the documentary film fests in the US and worldwide, searching out the best products.
These documentaries plus numerous others such as Sicko, Bowling For Columbine, Winged Migration, Everest, Enron, Touching the Void and many more prove that today’s moviegoers are hungry for alternative and thought-provoking entertainment. They want compelling stories with new ideas and new ways of looking at the world. With the emergence
of DVD, cable, satellite, internet, PodCast and other ancillary markets, there has never been a better time to invest in quality feature documentaries.
The Hype
The North Pole Inner Earth Expedition is extremely popular with millions of potential viewers. The films produced from this voyage will be the most valuable on-location production since the first manned voyage to the Moon. The project has been exposed to many millions of people in numerous countries. The market has been primed and audiences are more
excited than ever to see the results of the daring crew. Many people are calling it “the greatest Expedition in history.”
The global audience is hungry for exciting discoveries about planet earth as demonstrated by 17 million TV viewers in Japan alone, who watched Dr. Agnew’s interviews, resulting in the Genes of Galileo Award. ( 9.5 market share in 2007)
The huge numbers of sites listed on Google alone demonstrate interested viewers who also watch clips about:
The Hollow Earth - 462,000 viewers
Aurora Borealis – 2,700,000 viewers
Global Warming – 24,700,000 viewers
Human Consciousness – 2,750,000 viewers
The Strategy
We will produce five documentaries during the Expedition. This spreads the investors’ risk across multiple releases, thus reducing risk and maximizing potential profits of the overall venture. Please visit the Sponsorship page to learn more about investment opportunities.
It is anticipated that we will secure a feature documentary release for NPIEE. Its universal appeal to the “explorer” in all of us is poised to maximize returns from all revenue streams in all markets. All documentaries will be driven by such a release, thus increasing the odds that a distributor will acquire all five films.
A celebrity will be considered to host the NPIEE documentary. Potential candidates include Patrick Stewart, Dan Aykroyd, William Shatner, etc. Dr.Agnew has an outstanding presence on screen and will also lend energy, authenticity and credibility to the NIPEE documentary.
The Pre-Documentary
Global Photo Associates is a Japanese production company located in Los Angeles. In November of 2006, they featured Dr. Agnew discussing the upcoming North Pole Inner Earth Expedition. That documentary aired in May of 2007 in Japan in the Genes of Galileo science documentary film contest, which featured 20 different subjects and producers. The North Pole Inner Earth Expedition won the $10,000 First Place with more than 16,900 votes and a 9.5% market share on the Nippon Television Network. That translates to more than 17 million viewers who watched the documentary on the first run.
Phoenix Science Foundation sponsored Part One of the pre-NPIEE documentary with on-location footage filmed in Tibet and Mount Shasta. The 30-minute video was completed in June of 2007 and is in great demand, especially when Dr. Agnew speaks at national conferences. To view the documentary visit:
http://www.phoenixsciencefoundation.org/Film/Npiee_Tibet.wmv
Documentary Production Company
Emerald Films, Inc.
Producer: Sheila McCarthy
Emerald Films will secure funding and distribution of the documentaries. They will oversee the multiple productions and fully coordinate the Expedition with Dr. Brooks Agnew.
Sheila produced the historical Harlem Globetrotters USSR Tour, worked with Academy Award winning director Robert Wise in China, and returned unscathed from a devastating earthquake in Ismit, Turkey while filming the Perfect Science documentary. She produced Solo for Showtime, which received a Cine Golden Eagle Award and she received the Congressional Award for service. She has produced and associate produced award-winning documentaries on subjects ranging from Cold Fusion to Free Energy to UFO’s. As Director of Development for Marton Productions at Universal Studios, she developed literary properties including Dodger pitcher Bobby Welch’s memoir, Five O’Clock Comes Early and Judicial Indiscretion which she developed and associate-produced as Double Standard, an MOW for NBC. She has raised funds for film projects including Cathedral by author Nelson DeMille, and is currently packaging several film and television projects including The Father Divine Story, The Battle of Los Angeles and UFO Watchers. She is a board member of The Center for Community and Family Services, Inc. (CCFS), a federal and state funded 501C3 with an annual budget of $70
Million. CCFS supports self-sufficiency for individuals and families, helping to build sustainable communities. She is also arranging funding for an extraordinary EMF reduction technology with profound global ramifications.
Partial List of Film Teams
Jose Escamilla
Jose is both Director and Producer of “UFO’s: The Greatest Story Ever Denied” as well as many other ground-breaking documentaries on the paranormal. His body of work has received an astounding 47 million hits online since 2001. His total demographic / household impressions worldwide encompass an audience of at least one billion people. He has appeared on Prime Time television; Hard Copy, Sightings, Inside Edition, Geraldo Rivera Show, The Leeza Show, Strange Universe, Encounters, The Other Side, Dan Aykroyd's TV show "Out There", The Danny Show, the BBC in London, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX News, Specials on The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Tech TV, The Sci-Fi Channel and in Mexico on Jaime Maussan's television shows, on Sabado Gigante, Telemundo, Azteca TV, Univision and on countless Talk Radio shows worldwide including the top shows in the country / Coast to Coast with Art Bell / George Noorey (8 appearances, Jeff Rense Talk Show, Dr. Bob Hieronimous, Lee Spiegel Show, Rob McConnell (Canada). He is well known in Japan and China and has appeared on Japan’s top three networks - Asahi TV, Fuji TV and Nippon. He has been written about in thousands of web sites all over the world in all languages.
Magazines in print such as Fortean Times, Fate Magazine, UFO Magazine and numerous publications in Japan have also covered Jose Escamilla extensively. His crew will be conducting visible light and infrared filming of the sky and water surface as the ocean is being stimulated with targeted sonar. This crew will maintain a 24-7 watch on all four sides of the ship during the entire voyage. It is strongly believed that the experience of the team on the ship coupled with the filming abilities of this film crew will result in factual imagery of various geological, oceaonographic and weather anomalies.
Jill Heinerth
As a world-renowned underwater ice and Antarctic cave diver and photographer, Jill brings the highest level of undersea photography possible. In order to handle the toughest and most remote diving in the world Jill treats technical diving challenges as an exercise in problem solving. The film and still shots of sea life and ice formations will add stunning detail and dimension to the project. Her crew has successfully filmed the sudden formation of a new island in the sea during a volcanic eruption. They have also produced the most amazing under-ice photography ever filmed while on assignment with National Geographic. Her work will be used to support the Global Warming – An Arctic Perspective documentary.
Human Consciousness Documentary Producer TBA
We are actively searching for a producer of the Human Consciousness documentary. The interviewing of many of the world’s best authorities and spiritually aware personalities on Earth is a challenging project on the voyage.
Aurora Borealis Producer TBA
We are actively searching for a producer of the Aurora Borealis documentary.
Hollow Earth Producer TBA
We are actively searching for a producer of the Hollow Earth documentary.
Production Insurance
Production of all documentaries will be fully insured for all loses by an expert entertainment insurance carrier. We will secure the lowest possible rates for maximum levels of insurance coverage including Cast Insurance, Financial Coverage, Property Coverage, Liability Coverage and Employee Coverage.
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