Happy New Year! It’s a little late, but it means just the same from us. After a short holiday break, we came back to the office with plenty to do. We’re putting the finishing touches on The Mildred Muhammad Story here in New York, and two weeks ago we were down at the University of Florida following Dr.Jack Kevorkian as he spoke at the school. We’ve been developing this project for a long time, and it seems to be picking up momentum now as Dr.Kevorkian continues lecturing across the country, so we’re excited to see where things go in the coming months. And finally, High School Musical: The Music In You premiered on the Disney Channel. We’re really happy to see all the folks in Fort Worth and their hard work being shown on national television. TV Guide recently featured a piece Barbara put together about the whole experience of making the film, which you can read here.

There’s plenty of other development going on here at Cabin Creek, and we’d love to hear what some you are working on, so please do leave us comments.

- Cabin Creek

Hello!

It’s been a little while since we last posted, we’ve been extremely busy here at Cabin Creek.  We finally finished our half-hour High School Musical documentary and sent it away to Disney to prep for its premiere on January 20th,  2008 on the Disney Channel.  Right now, our series of two-minute vignettes about two high schools in Fort Worth, Texas putting on a theatrical version of the Disney sensation High School Musical are airing on the Disney Channel on Saturdays at 7:55 PM EST.  Keep an eye out for those, and be sure to check back in with us because we’ll be adding a new page dedicated to the High School Music – The Music In You very soon.  In the meantime, check out a couple of clips over at the Disney page.

We’re also wrapping up our hour-long documentary – The Mildred Muhammad Story – about the wife of DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad.  There’s no set date for its premiere, but keep checking in with us, we’ll let you know as soon as we find out the details.

Finally, we recently found out some exciting news: on December 8,  the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (trying saying that even one time fast!) awarded the Addiction Project its 2007American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Media Award.  As some of you probably already know, we made a ten-minute film as part of HBO’s Addiction Project, which you can check out a clip of here on our site.  We’re extremely honored to have been a part of such a forward-thinking, concerned project, and we hope that the film helped some learn about addiction – we certainly learned a lot in the process of making the film.

Thanks for reading, keep the comments coming, we look forward to hearing from you about anything and everything!

- Cabin Creek

In the midst of our hectic editing schedule (we’re working on two deadlines simultaneously!), we received a most welcome surprise from the daughter of someone who’s been in one of our films, though we never had the pleasure of knowing him: . You’ll recognize Samuel as the guitarist and singer of the song “Shuttle Car Driving Man” that’s featured in Harlan County USA. Samuel was not one of the striking miners, but he came down from West Virginia to support the strikers during the U.M.W. of A. march featured about an hour into the film. Recently, Samuel’s daughter Lisa contacted us to say that Samuel died on March 7, 2006, which we are very sad to hear. Samuel has always been a memorable character from the film, and we’re glad that he shared his music with us and all the people who get the chance to see the film. In memory of Samuel Hager, here is a photo of him performing “Shuttle Car Driving Man.”

- Cabin Creek

Welcome to the Cabin Creek Films blog! This is the first of many posts about a whole array of different topics, and we’re really excited to keep you in the know on all the projects we’re working on. We plan on posting as much as possible, so please check in with us periodically. And we definitely want to hear from you! Please leave comments about stories that might make interesting films, great movies you’ve recently seen, and all your thoughts on what’s going on in documentary these days.

We recently just finished cutting together a series of 2-minute clips for the Disney Channel called ‘The Music In You’ that started airing on the Disney Channel two weeks ago. This past June, we went to Texas to film two high schools as they put on a theatrical version of the cultural phenomenon that is High School Musical. We got to know the kids, faculty, and family as they moved from the casting stages all the way through to opening night performances. You can check out more at disneychannel.com/musicinyou.

Right now, we’re wrapping up a project for True TV, “The Mildred Muhammed Story” that looks at Mildred Muhammed, the wife of DC Sniper John Allen Muhammed, and her relationship to the man during their courting period all the way through the trauma of his three-week attacks in the DC area. Keep your eyes open for that in the coming months.

So please explore our new site and feel free to make comments, we look forward to hearing from you!

- Cabin Creek