From Bangalore to Bollywood

This year I got a little taste of Bollywood—okay, not quite the romantic musicals this film production mecca is often associated with. My experience involved producing a film that would give an insider’s look at how a major high-tech Indian company collaborates with the U.S. market research giant Nielsen to provide global consumer insights. The […]

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Ready to tell the world who you are?

We completely redesigned our website.  We wanted to communicate how important it is to share your passion and values with well, the world. That’s what drew me to filmmaking—capturing what lies within us and motivates us to have a positive impact on those we serve. I look forward to sharing more of these inspiring stories […]

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Would you take a few minutes to help?

On January 1, 2013, I celebrate my first year as the owner of Natalie Halpern Productions. Business has been good in 2012 and with some new clients, 2013 will be even better. If you can spare a few moments, kindly think of 2 or 3 companies, nonprofits or individuals who have indicated an interest in […]

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Art Affects People, Even After 40 Years

Last fall, I produced a legacy film about 96-year-old painter, Nathalie Engdahl, the mother of Jacksonville sculptor David Engdahl. In an age of viral videos and tweets that travel around the world in seconds, I’m still surprised by emails like the one below from a woman who’d purchased one of Nathalie’s paintings to David Engdahl. […]

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I Was Wrong About Community Hospice

When Community Hospice of Northeast Florida asked me to interview employees, volunteers and patients to create videos for its new website I worried about the emotional impact talking about death and dying in such depth might have on me. For three days I listened to the stories of employees whose loved ones had received the […]

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How Nielsen Innovates

Nielsen is widely known for its TV ratings. But it does so much more than measure what people watch. It also tracks what people buy through a variety of new technologies. Nielsen’s innovative spirit was what the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Mitchell Habib, wanted to capture in a high-energy video for an audience of corporate […]

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There’s Beauty in Silence

One of the movie industry’s biggest surprises of 2011 is the silent film, “The Artist,” winner of a Golden Globe for Best Picture, Comedy, a Best Actor award at Cannes and a likely contender for this year’s Oscars. In the film, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, silent movie idol George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) mourns the arrival […]

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