The documentary I’m working on for my third semester production class at USC is called Polar Opposites.  Here’s the logline:

Polar Opposites is a USC documentary film that attempts to investigate the pole dancing trend and why women are flocking to the pole in droves.

Here’s the pitch video for the documentary project.  This is what Caitlin, the director of this project, showed potential crew members, teachers and administrators as she was pitching the project for consideration as a Production 3 documentary film to be produced and funded by USC.

I’m going to be editing the project along with Erika Edgerley.  The director and producers are planning a whole web presence for the project, which includes a facebook page, a tumblr account, a twitter account and a YouTube presence that reveals news and informaton pertaining to the creation of this documentary.

Take a look around:

Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/plrOpposites

Facebook  - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Polar-Opposites/245176748450?ref=ts

Tumblr – http://www.polaroppositesfilm.tumblr.com/

BSA Final Honors Ceremony 2006 from Neil Williams on Vimeo.

Duke University’s Black Student Alliance Final Honors Ceremony 2006.

My senior video created for Duke University’s Black Student Alliance.

Duke Magazine’s January/February issue has an article on the 25th Anniversary of the Mary Lou Williams Center. I was interviewed for this piece where I speak briefly about the documentary that I’m working on for the center.

Read the article here.

On December 11th, I showed a few clips of The Silver Rights Movement to a small audience at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. The audience included teachers, Durham city members, Duke Administrators and former students.

From the feedback, I can tell there’s still a good amount of work to be done, but I get the sense that the film is moving from being a strictly historical piece to one that is more thematic.

I was really happy to show a longer cut of the film to everyone and get feedback.

Plan is to take these comments, re-edit and have something finished by the end of the New Year…

Yesterday (November 29th, 2008), I shot some B-roll for the Mary Lou Williams Center documentary. Steve Milligan was the cinematographer and Kevin Wu, Duke ‘11, was the camera assistant.

MLWC B-Roll 11.29.08 from Neil Williams on Vimeo.

I’ll upload some footage soon. I had been wanting to work with Steve for a while now so I’m glad that we were finally able to make it happen.