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April 29, 2010
The “about” section really ends at 2005 and needs a major update. Even during the transformation I will continue to refine and update this section. Here are some recent major highlights.
Recent Major Highlights:
-Tibet Hope wins Accolade award and plays Internationally
-Executive Producer/Editor on “GrandMother Drum: Awakening the Global Heart”
-GMD Trailer now with over 38 Thousand hits on YouTube
-GMD film Premiers at Isreal Peace Film Festival
-SMG Engineers “Songlines of the Soul” Album for Whirling Rainbow Foundation
-SMG and Baina Kandi partner to create “The Baina Kandi Show”
-May 2007 Brad joins Hope Community Resources as their Media Producer
-October 2008 films “Destiny of Challenge” & “Stop & Go” are released to sold out premier at the Anchorage Museum
-Destiny of Challenge is featured at the Full Lives conference in Anchorage Alaska and the Pacific Rim conference on Disabilities in Honolulu Hawaii
-Stop & Go is featured in the Anchorage International Film Festival
-Brad CO-produces the soundtrack to “Way Up North” along with Mike McCormick and their band “the Rebuttals”
-Way Up North premiers to a sold out audience at the Anchorage Film Festival
-Way Up North wins twice at the 2009 Beverly Hills International Film Festival “Best Editing” and “Best Short Film” jury award
-SMG completes “Charlie’s Wellness” a personal story about a man’s battle with cancer
-Way Up North is the only film from America selected for the NEXT Film Festival in Romania
-Brad joins Crooked Pictures founder Levi A. Taylor as the Senior Vice President of Special Projects creating a new Entertainment Corporation in Alaska
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Swenson Media Group is a project based media company focusing primarily on motion picture and sound composition. Owner Brad J Swenson has been active in arts his entire life starting first in theater at the age of 7 and appearing in musicals such as Guys and Dolls, The Wiz and Bye, Bye Birdie.
Common Verse and Bread was written and directed by Brad in his freshman year of college. After finishing his degree in Visual Communications from the Minneapolis College of Communication Arts, Swenson packed up an old ’71 Cadillac and headed to Alaska.
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After 8 long years of cutting his teeth on anything video, Brad met Alaska film making legend William Bacon III. Mr. Bacon tutored Swenson on the finer techniques of editing while creating “Tibet a moment in time” Bacon’s beautiful portrait of the Tibetan people and their struggle against Chinese occupation.
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photo: Sergios Rahmatoulin
Palmer Alaska
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Shortly after the documentaries release Swenson was recruited by Dr Matthias Zahn to join FAST Multimedia AG based in Munich Germany. After a brief start on the Technical Engineering team, Swenson was promoted to International Product Manager for a new line of professional editing systems.
Swenson was responsible for the global launch of purple, silver and blue, a complete line of Digital editing systems all based on the editor designed User Interface, Liquid.
In October of 2001 after the release of the full product line Swenson helped FAST sell the Editing Assets to Pinnacle Systems Inc (PCLE) of Mountain View CA. Swenson still works with the engineering team in Munich as a consultant on a limited basis now and uses Avid* Liquid ChromeHD for all editing at Swenson Media Group and Stienberg’s CuBase for sound work.
(*in 2006 AVID purchased Pinnacle Systems)
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Swenson Media Group is a project based studio. We only work with projects that move us, if its not a good fit we will tell you. SMG is driven to perfection and perfection requires involvement in the complete process and it requires heart.
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Swenson Media Group looks forward to hearing about your vision and working together to bring dreams to life, stories to the masses and hope for a better future by telling our story and listening to yours.
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