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NEWS:
03/01/08- Today Lusaka Sunrise is featured on the YouTube homepage! Very exciting. Check it out here.
09/28/07- After many hours of editing, scoring, and polishing, we have completed the final cut of "Back In Life". View the film here.
08/11/07- View the latest Gift Economy Film for "The Jones Street Boys" on the "Journey Blog"
08/11/07-
05/03/07- Check out the new "Journey Blog"which will highlight stories and footage from the gift economy quest over the next 3 months. We're offering the service of filmmaking everywhere from Porcupine South Dakota to Bangalore India. If you're interested to get involved please feel free to drop us a line. Big Smiles -Silas
03/27/07- Today we have officially launched 100 % into the gift economy. This means many exciting things for Smooth Feather Productions. Having attained non-profit status through our new partner Charity Focus, we are now following three guiding principles in our future work. Click here to learn more.
12/30/06- Tune in to Fox College Sports or Fox Sports West tonight at 8:00 PM EST to see Smooth Feather Productions' 30 second commercial for Grassroot Soccer. To watch the commercial click here. (quicktime 7 required)
12/18/06- Silas has been invited to join Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo for an honorary black-tie gala dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC tonight. Should be a glorious evening.
12/01/06- Today's premier at the John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy Charter School in the Bronx was amazing! We couldn't have asked for a better crowd...you guys rocked. The feedback and discussion left Adam and I talking the whole way home. Thanks again. -Silas
12/01/06-
Today, in conjunction with World Aids Day, we are launching “Lusaka Sunrise”
globally. With an on-line viewership expectected to be quite high today, we are excited
to see the film take on some legs of its own. Please feel free to pass on “Lusaka Sunrise”.
11/30/06-
The World Premier of “Lusaka Sunrise” is being held at the John V. Lindsay
Wilcat Academy Charter School in the Bronx on Dec 1st. The film will be shown to 3 groups of
students and each screening will be followed by a Q & A with Director Silas Hagerty and Producer Adam Mastrelli.
11/09/06-
The first cut of Lusaka Sunrise is now online! Check it out on the studio page.
9/03/06- We have returned from our trip to Zambia! Having recently ungraded our editing facilities to High Definition, we are beginning the difficult task of logging through 30 hours of footage taken. We will be sure to keep you up to date on the developments of Lusaka Sunrise.
4/23/06- While recovering on a sidewalk after running the Boston Marathon, Ben Gucciardi and I were both hit with the realization that a partnership needed to be formed between "Smooth Feather" and "Soccer Without Borders". This partnership is an exciting one which opens many doors for our latest feature film Lusaka Sunrise. -Silas
When a truck slammed into Joe Damon's car in 2006, the 48-year old husband, father, businessman and athlete suffered a devastating brain injury that left him in a coma for five weeks. "Joe's Journey" tells the story of everything that was lost that day, but more importantly, of all that survived. Through powerful and deeply personal encounters with Joe, his wife, children and close friends, this film reveals the strength in their struggles, the sweetness alongside the shadows, and the quiet heroism of one family living a difficult reality with an extraordinary measure of grace.
In July of 2005 Zack Weinstein broke his neck while jumping into the Saco River in Maine. He is now a C5-C6 Quadriplegic. In service to other quadriplegics, we have teamed up with Zack to create "BACK IN LIFE". Our hope is that by sharing Zack's powerful experiences in this film, it may provide others with needed strength in an oftentimes daunting struggle. Runtime: 15 Min.
On April 2nd, 2007 we decided to launch Smooth Feather Productions fully into the 
Lusaka Sunrise is our latest documentary short film which focuses on how soccer/football is being used as a catalyst to spread HIV/AIDS awareness to African youth living in Zambia. "Lusaka Sunrise" is now being screened in numerous locations throughout the U.S. and