Surfacing
A short, experimental film trying to portray my appreciation for the ocean.
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David Helfer WellsDirector
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David Helfer WellsProducer
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David Helfer WellsCinematographer
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Project Type:Experimental
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Runtime:2 minutes 24 seconds
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Completion Date:July 1, 2024
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Production Budget:100 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Shooting Format:iPhone 4K
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
David Helfer Wells is an award winning visual storyteller who has worked as a newspaper photographer, a freelance magazine photographer, and most recently as a filmmaker. His short films, among them Trap Fishing and Blending into the American Dream, have been screened at festivals in Ankara, Bangalore, Jaipur, Lahore, Lisbon, Mumbai, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Rome, Sacramento and San Francisco. Wells has been honored with the Necati Celik Prize from the Hak-Is International Short Film Festival, the award for Best Short Film from the Melrose Film Festival, and the Best New England Documentary Short from the South East New England Film Festival. Born in Albany, N.Y., raised and educated in Los Angeles, he earned a B.A.from Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges. He worked as a magazine photojournalist for publications such as Fortune, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, The Sunday New York Times, and Time magazine, among others.