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The Nazi Drawings documentary receives the 2004
Mid-America Emmy Award in the
Documentary Category given by the National Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences.  The Nazi Drawings was
qualified for entry into the Emmy competition for its two airings on
Iowa Public Television during Holocaust Remembrance Month in 2003 &
2004.
UPDATE (May 2005): The Nazi Drawings has been picked up for broadcast on PBS stations around the country, and will be playing in many states over the next few months. Check with your local Public Broadcasting Station for availability in your area. |
XapVision Nature Scenes
is now a full professional product. Combining 4 separate DVD programs
into
one "super-sized" DVD, XapVision is now nearly 3 hours with relaxing
and very engaging, professionally filmed scenes and sounds of nature.  XapVision
Nature Scenes
features elegantly filmed and continuously changing live motion scenes
of nature including horses, puppies, peacocks, flowers, time-lapse
clouds, beautiful aquatic life, autumn leaves, frogs, squirrels, exotic
birds, and much more... XapVision was developed to create a more relaxing, elegant and stress-free environment for hospital waiting rooms, nursing homes, corporate lobbies, hotels, in-house television systems, etc. |
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New footage for the Bill Sackter documentary
was recently uncovered by
Barry Morrow and Jack Doepke. The footage includes scenes shot by
Barry on B&W portapack when he and Bill returned to Faribault
Institution, as well as photos of Bill
when he was 30 years old in
the institution.
Another great discovery was an unmarked
audio cassette which was a recording from Bill's funeral, including
Barry Morrow's eulogy. |
Xap
Interactive completed a promotional video on the history of the Mercy
Hospital system. The project was shot in Chicago,
Milwaukee, and Iowa City and was presented at a hospital
conference late October 2003.  The production, entitled "A Basket of Many Handles" featured newly acquired footage, photographs, original music, and interviews to tell the whole story of Mercy Hospital and its compassionate outreach to many different communities. Lane & Angie Wyrick worked closely with Denice Connell from Public Relations in Mercy Iowa City to craft this 18 minute production that is now being put to wide use. |
| Lane Wyrick has been working with Minneapolis-based Guidant Corporation to shoot a series of pacemaker implant surgical procedures to create a training DVD for surgeons using their medical equipment. The DVD is being posted by Banyan in Minneapolis and will be completed in late 2003. |
| The Nazi
Drawings documentary had its
BROADCAST PREMIERE on Iowa Public Television at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday
April 22, 2003 during Holocaust remembrance month. |
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The new documentary "Bill Sackter: A Special Spirit" which is the beginning stages of production was recently featured in an article in the Iowa City Press Citizen.
Also in June, new interviews were filmed of Dr. Tom Walz, Rabbi Jeffrey Portman, and Jack Doepke which will provide key storytelling elements to the documentary. Many new photographs, film, video, and audio tapes have been discovered featuring Bill Sackter. Learn more about "Bill Sackter: A Special Spirit" |
Lane Wyrick completed
filming of two new XapVision
Nature Screen Systems discs. Slated for release in April 2003, one
disc will be an entire underwater adventure featuring aquatic animal
and plant life, and the other disc will display a huge variety of
nature scenes, all shot in the beautiful Midwest. Wyrick spent an entire month capturing these mesmerizing scenes using a top-of-the-line widescreen digital camera rented from Hollywood, and is very pleased to be nearing completion of discs 3 and 4 for the system. Coming soon to a hospital waiting room near you... |
| The Nazi Drawings documentary will be screened at
the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art on Thursday, August 15 at 5:30 pm. A
discussion with filmmaker Lane Wyrick will follow the event. For more
information, visit the Cedar
Rapids Museum of Art Website.
Also, The Nazi Drawings documentary was featured in the University of Iowa Spectator Magazine Summer 2002 edition which is distributed to over 180,000 Univ of Iowa Alumni. |
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Other News and Updates Xap Interactive
received the "Innovative Business Award" from the Iowa City Chamber of
Commerce (Q1 2002) for its design of the XapVision Nature Screen Systems.
The awards ceremony was held on March 13, 2002 at the University of Iowa Hospital Department of Orthopaedics waiting room, where the first XapVision System was recently installed. |
Lane Wyrick teams up with Academy Award
Winning screenwriter Barry Morrow, to create a new documentary entitled
"Bill Sackter: A
Special Spirit".  The hour-long documentary will tell the true story of the life and struggles of Bill Sackter, whose story was popularized by the highly successful 1981 made-for-tv movie "Bill", starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid. |
| The Nazi Drawings documentary received several more awards. On February 23, 2002 The Nazi Drawings was awarded Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Soundtrack at the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival, to add to its list of festivals and awards, including "Best Documentary" and "Best Director" at the New York International Independent Film Festival. |
