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Fantastic Foods of the World
– A New Series!
(13X60 HDTV)
 New
Episode shot in Fall 2007 – Sicily, Italy
Marc Pingry and Stan Barrett from Art Culinaire collaborated once
more on our on going series "Fantastic Foods of the World".
This autumn they shot the amazing people and the delicious cuisine
of Sicily: A Grape harvest feast in Saint Angelo Muxon, fishermen
returning with their fresh catch from the Mediterranean in Sciacca
along with the breathtaking scenery of the Valley of the Temples in
Agrigento, and cave exploring in the hills around Saint Biagio.
* Special thanks to the best guides and our best friends in Sicily:
Sabrina lo Piano from Palermo (http://sabrina.sicilian.net/)
and Pierfilippo Sotto from Val di Kam in Sant’Angelo Muxaro (http://www.valdikam.it/enter.ht)
 Pilot
Episode – Burgundy, France
Great cuisine is not just a combination of the best ingredients, blends
of exotic spices and the latest cooking trends of creative chefs....
Gastronomy is much more... Each country has its distinctive culinary
character but when digging deeper, every region has its own
unique flavors, culture and secret recipes.
The cuisine is defined by:
Geography - landscape, weather and soil influences the local
cooking habits.
History - from the first berry plucked and meat cooked over fire,
history has defined what a region's cuisine will look and taste like.
Culture - traditional dishes define a culture: black forest cake
in Schwartzwald, Germany, Tapas in Andalusia, Spain, Escargot in Burgundy,
France....
Tradition - family recipes and techniques on how to grow the best
crops, breed the best cattle make the most satisfying wine are passed
down from generation to generation.
Personalities - the local chefs tap into the region's cornucopia
to create fantastic meals. All these elements are combined in a visually
stunning concoction to create a deliciously entertaining series.
The 60 minute pilot episode travels to France and the Burgundy
region and features a chateaux that produces great wine but also
has an incredible collection of airplanes and vintage automobiles,
the Chassagne-Montrachet  vineyard
run by a father and his two sons in St Aubon in a celebration of Bastille
Day, a visit to a home kitchen with a local family, a mustard factory
and a meal preparation by the youngest three star chef in France and
much more....
Future Fantastic Foods of the World episodes: Coming Soon!
The
Magic of Hong Kong
(1X60 HDTV)
 A
one-hour High Definition program about the hidden sides of this
multi colored, fascinating culture. On Hong Kong Island a Chinese
herb shop dispenses secret remedies, while in a small shop in Kowloon
a beautiful snake lady handles cobras like they were toys just before
she turns them into a healing reptilian soup…On the car-less
Cheung Chau Island  elevated
children parade like divine beings at the famous Bun festival.
Hong Kong is known for its fast paced lifestyle but in the lush
green mountains there are miles of hiking trails for peaceful journeys.
Peeking behind the scenes at a Cantonese opera House reveals the
singers prepping for their nightly performance. ‘Magic’
is watching the chef cooking the deadly poisonous "stone  fish"
for a delicious meal and then going on a shopping spree in the local
street markets for a Mao watch...
This interesting, fast paced program reveals another side of Hong
Kong, a truly magical city.
Video
Shorts for Microsoft
Marc Pingry Productions was hired by Worktank, (www.worktankseattle.com),
to work on a series of case studies for the Microsoft Corporation.
This took Sigal and Marc to Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico
for a fascinating and fun shoot.
Summer 2007 – Sigal Bujman was hired by Worktank Seattle to
direct two short videos for Microsoft in Istanbul, Turkey.
TOKYO
MOTOR SHOWS
Driving Tomorrow – 2005
HDTV Photographer Marc Pingry and Producer Sigal Bujman teamed up
with Producer Ken Urman (www.powertocreate.com) in the filming of
the High Def one hour show "Driving Tomorrow". Once again
Honda America invited the crew to Makuhari Messe. The show was distributed
internationally to TV channels and in the US it was sold to INHD.
International Distribution: (www.johnmcleanmedia.com).
Wheeling to the Future
– 2003
Marc Pingry Productions was invited by American Honda Motor Co.
to be their guest to visit Honda R&D during the 39th Tokyo Motor
Show. The car show was held in October 2003 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba
Prefecture. The show was sold to many international channels as
well as Discovery HD in the USA.
Distribution: (www.johnmcleanmedia.com).
The
American History – Five
episodes for China Public Channel
New challenges were presented to MPPI when CCTV-6 from Beijing,
one of China’s most popular channels contracted Marc Pingry
Productions to be the American producers and shooters for their
ground breaking HD series "World  History",
a 100X30 minute HD episodes with an estimated audience in China
of 600 million viewers (!). We worked on five episodes concentrating
on American History with weeks of pre-production and 18 days of
shooting in Manhattan, New York State, Plymouth, Massachusetts,
Boston, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Washington DC, Charlottesville,
Richmond, Roanoke and Williamsburg. From Virginia we traveled to
St. Louis and finally ending up in San Francisco, Sacramento and
the high Sierras. It was an amazing experience and we learned about
the American History in a few months more than we ever did in high
school…
HD
Aerial Shoot in Europe
Marc Pingry went to Southwest England and Tuscany to shoot stunning
Aerials for the New York based Dawn Treader Productions’ new
series for PBS called  "Heavenly
Voices" which has premiered nationwide in March and April of
2007.
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