"Korea Dreambus" Pilgrimage and Documentary Film

Anyone who has created a video -- even a short one -- knows that organizing and managing the media (video and photos) is an essential step in preparing to edit. It can be a behemoth of a task, depending on how much media you have. If you're me, you overshoot everything, and you end up with about 4,000 video clips and photos from Korea to organize and manage. I've had to break this into a few smaller chunks so as not to get overwhelmed.  The first step was to create Albums in iCloud. I organized these by the locations of my pilgrimage trip: Seoul, Seosan, Ulsan, Eonyang, Incheon, and Returning Home.  This was fairly easy to do, as everything is automatically date stamped, and I knew from looking at the images where in my journey they were from. Haemi Martyrs Shrine I also had to prep my computer for editing. This meant several steps: clearing off non-essentials, backing everything up, and upgrading my OS to run Davinci Resolve (DR).  I looked up the minimum required system...

If you've read any news from Korea lately, you know that several wildfires have been raging this past week. Two of those fires were located in areas that I hold dear, in Ulsan and near Namchang.  The fire near Ulsan looks like it came up very close to one of the pilgrimage sites I visited last year -- Eonyang Catholic Church in Ulju-gun, Ulsan .  From what I can gather, that fire has been contained, and it never touched the property of the church. Thanks be to God.  However, elsewhere, the fires are raging with the loss of cultural and historical places as well as human life. Let's pray for a quick end to these fires before more lives are lost and irrevocably changed. Crucifix on the hill behind historic pilgrimage church at Eonyang, Ulju-gu, Ulsan, S. Korea

Dear friends and supporters, I am so delighted and humbled to report that I've received a grant from the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts  Individual Projects program in support of post-production for Korea Dreambus . My scheduled public screening, in accordance with my agreement with GVCA, will be on Nov. 1, 2025 at St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry. As part of the process of submitting a budget, I've hired an editor -- the amazing Derrick Edgerton III -- who also worked on sound and color grading for my short film Souled , which will be screening next month.  Since returning from Korea, I've been running to catch up with my other responsibilities, but as my short film is finally getting finished, there is more time for me to focus on this doc. Thus far, I've arranged my media (4,000 clips and photos!), started writing a paper edit, and have purchased an external hard drive to use in putting together an assemble edit with Davinci Resolve, which I...