A New Path…
First day of filming on location in Goa, India. First leg of our journey with Jonathan Brookins, UFC star. It is interesting to see what this journey does to Jonathan when he returns to the United States and plans for returning to Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC. The first part for Jonathan is almost [...]
Apr 02, 2013
India and the Himalaya
Heading out of the studio door for a film shoot with one camera bag… that’s a first we have to add. Keeping this as ligth as possible. Then again we are travelling to Rishikesh in north India and the Himalayas beyond. The weather will be warming up nicely there. This is the lightest we have [...]
Mar 29, 2013
In the Footsteps of Buddha… Crowd Funding
We have just launched crowd-funding for our new movie, In the Footsteps of Buddha. This is the first time to participate in this type of financing for films. In this case most of the heavy financing has been done and we have completed filming in India. However that is only the beginning in film making… [...]
Feb 11, 2013
ONE SHOT. ONE LIFE Official Trailer
Uploading a new trailer to the internet is always a great moment for us. It means we are finally seeing some indication of our labor. I do wish we could make movies faster but it”s such a slow process for us. And a slow process is a good way to introduce the new trailer for [...]
Feb 11, 2013
A New Year… A New Film
As we end 2012 and begin a new year I thought I would update what the next year holds for new releases and movies in production. 2012 was an amazing year for Empty Mind Films with two very successful documentary releases – A Boy in China and Wing Chun a documentary. It may sound so [...]
Dec 28, 2012
Zen and Kyudo… what side are you on?
It would be an impossible task to make a documentary on Japanese archery or kyudo and not address the book, ‘Zen in the Art of Archery’ by the German author, Eugen Herrigel. In fact our original intention was to make a documentary with the book as the central character and focus on the controversy that has [...]
Nov 10, 2012
Japan Kyudo Championships… and more
The first week in November is a great time to be in Japan and Tokyo especially with so many martial arts demonstrations and competitions. We are here filming the All Japan Kyudo (archery) Championships on the 3rd November at Shiseikan dojo at the Meiji Shrine. On the next day, Sunday it was the examination gradings. We [...]
Nov 05, 2012
High School Martial Arts in Japan
If you have been keeping up with some of our blogs and facebook, you may know we have been shooting (pun intended) a new film on Kyudo or Japanese archery. We began filming last year on November 3rd and will complete location filming in Japan exactly one year later. While filming our archery movie, we [...]
