The Essence of Essaouiria
Walk the spice-scented lanes, tour the markets in the medina (old town) and watch fishermen at work in the busy commercial fishing port of Essaouira, (essa-weera, or es-sweera in Arabic) a city on Morocco’s Atlantic coast protected by 18th-century seafront ramparts.
(This film was captured, edited and output on an Apple iPhone 11Pro over 3 days of capture and another three days of editing.)
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Project Type:Documentary, Short
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Runtime:4 minutes 28 seconds
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Completion Date:November 15, 2021
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Production Budget:1,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:Morocco
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Shooting Format:iPhone Video
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Aspect Ratio:16x9
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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 a film-maker and photographer who divides his time between Providence, Rhode Island, and Bangalore, India. One day you can find him creating still and moving images for clients, such as Edible Rhody and the Providence Preservation Society on the unique local culture of America’s smallest state. Other days he may be working on personal/grant-funded projects on the beautiful Narragansett Bay with the support of Rhode Island’s Council for Humanities and State Council on the Arts. In India’s "Silicon City” Bangalore, he is busy creating visual narratives for clients such as Bryn Mawr College and Aramco World or working on personal/grant-funded projects supported by the Fulbright and Alicia Patterson Foundations. He has worked on assignment for such magazines as Fortune, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, The Sunday New York Times, and Time, among others. One editor described him as a “…specialist in intercultural communication and visual narratives that excel in their creative mastery of light, shadow and sound, stills and video.” Many of his short films have been juried into film festivals around the globe, including Ankara, Bangalore, Jaipur, Lahore, Lisbon, Mumbai, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Rome, Sacramento, and San Francisco.