Time Capsule Movies are created in collaboration between the family and our filmmaking team. First, fill out our very brief Time Capsule Questionnaire. Upon our review of that, we will set up a call to discuss it in more detail. On that initial call, we will discuss the most important elements you and your family want for your movie.
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How It Works
“Scott started by asking me what I wanted to be remembered for and that is exactly what he included in the film.”
Michael C. DonaldsonEntertainment Lawyer – Los Angeles, CA
How We Will Collaborate
Don’t worry, you don’t need to be a filmmaking expert to answer these questions. Everyone knows what movies they have loved, and how those movies made them feel.
After this initial call, we will put together a proposed budget and schedule. Once that is approved, we would move on to the actual production starting with an initial meal (or FaceTime) with you and your family to help us get to know each other. This will be followed by one to three or more days of filming and culling of archival materials, then several weeks of editing to craft the materials into a movie.
Some examples of questions we’ll be asking to get to know you and make your film…
What do you want your audience to feel at the end of the film?
What genre/style of documentary would you like?
How many characters/family members will be in the film?
How much archival material does your family have?
The Final Product
You will have the opportunity to see an early cut of your film to give one detailed round of notes/comments for suggested changes, followed by one shorter round of notes before we finalize and master the film.
All Time Capsule Movies are produced with professional production qualities compatible with the best documentaries on the market. Our budgets are determined by maintaining that quality, and adjusted according to the needs of a particular movie such as length, locations, number of shoot days, original score, or any other elements you desire.”
Once the film is mastered, we will deliver:
About our founder
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Academy Award® nominee Scott Hamilton Kennedy is a writer, director, producer, cameraman, and editor. He has worked on everything from documentary and scripted film with legends like Roger Corman, directed music videos like Jimmy Cliff’s international hit “I Can See Clearly Now,” to commercials, motion capture animation, scripted and reality television. His documentary work includes Oscar Nominated The Garden, which tells the story of the complicated struggle over the nation’s largest community garden; Independent Spirit Award Nominee OT: our town—about the first play in 25 years at Dominguez High School in Compton; and the critically acclaimed Fame High, which follows four students through a year at one of the most respected and competitive performing arts high schools in the country. Scott recently launched Time Capsule Movies, a production company that personally curates documentaries that capture special moments in your life to be shared for generations to come.
Scott’s previous documentary, narrated by the esteemed astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, is FOOD EVOLUTION, which, through resetting the GMO controversy, highlights the importance of using the scientific method to help everyone – from parents to politicians – make better decisions. FOOD EVOLUTION was both one of the most controversial and well-received documentaries of 2017, garnering a rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, where the LA Times wrote: “Calm, careful, potentially revolutionary, FOOD EVOLUTION is an iconoclastic documentary on a hot-button topic,” and the NY Times: “FOOD EVOLUTION posits an inconvenient truth for organic boosters to swallow: In a world desperate for safe, sustainable food, GMOs may well be a force for good.” It has been screened on Capitol Hill, the National Academy of Sciences, the European Parliament, the FAO, and many more.
”The idea for TIME CAPSULE MOVIES began with my ongoing love for the play OUR TOWN and how that masterful play both has a scene about a time capsule, and is a time capsule. And I thought: can I take my experience as a documentary storyteller and translate that to personal portraits? Not made for wide release, but made for and about those who love and know us most. Capturing special people, moments, landmarks, and preserving them, like a time capsule, before they are gone."
Scott Hamilton KennedyCreator - Time Capsule Movies
