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Distant Object now playing in Times Square

May 2011: Distant Object Productions today announced a collaboration with the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) to use footage from the documentary "Understanding High Blood Pressure" for a public service announcement to be broadcast on the CBS screen in Times Square, New York.

ASH is the largest organization of hypertension researchers and health care providers in the United States committed to eliminating hypertension and its consequences. Raising awareness is a key part of its activities and when ASH approached Distant Object to use some of the stunning animations created by Hybrid Animation as a backdrop to a public services announcement they were delighted to be involved in the project.

Martin Briggs-Watson, Executive Producer of Understanding High Blood Pressure commented, "The ultimate aim of the film was to raise awareness about hypertension and to help patients understand the condition. For parts of the film to develop a life of their own and continue that cause is marvellous. For it to be appearing on a 26 foot screen and helping raise awareness in the centre of New York is fantastic".

The public service announcement is currently playing 18 times a day on the CBS screen (located on 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenue).

In addition ASH also decided to use the footage as a key part of the home page of their website www.ash-us.org.

The full DVD of Understanding High Blood Pressure is available via the Experts in Health website.

Distant Object wins VIDEOMED trophy

14th February 2011: Distant Object Productions today announced that the documentary "Understanding High Blood Pressure" received the winners trophy in the Heart Diseases: Prevention and Treatment category at VIDEOMED 2010, Spain.

"It's a fantastic honour to have won such a prestigious award in one of the longest running medical film festivals" said Martin Briggs-Watson, Executive Producer of Understanding High Blood Pressure. "Given preliminary audits on patients watching the DVD suggest the advice in the video is effecting change in their lifestyles, it is now very rewarding for the film to be recognised by peers and doctors alike at this well established international film festival" added Zuleika Kingdon, Director/Editor of Understanding High Blood Pressure.

VIDEOMED celebrated its 25th year in 2010, with the festival taking place in Badajoz, Spain in November. With affiliate festivals around the world, VIDEOMED is one of the longest established and widest ranging medical film festivals. To celebrate the 25th Anniversary, the 2010 VIDEOMED trophy is an exclusive scuplture of Hygieia - Goddess of Health, daughter of Aesculapius (God of Medicine). This orginal scuplture was created by the sought-after Parisian sculpture Liliane Caumont.

The complete DVD "Understanding High Blood Pressure: How to avoid Heart Attacks and Strokes" contains four parts consisting of the main documentary, a short drama delivering the key messages, additional patient stories and a doctors' cut explaining treatment guidelines for healthcare professionals and interested patients. Distant Object Production collaborated closely with leading researchers Professors Peter Sever and Neil Poulter and family physician Dr Henry White from Experts In Health to produce a trusted patient education resource from the world experts.

The first audience survey for the film revealed that 85% of patients who watched it made at least one change to an aspect of their lives with the aim of lowering their blood pressure. The DVD has received endorsements from the Blood Pressure Association, World Hypertension League, British Hypertension Society, British Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, and Diabetes UK.

The DVD is available via the Experts in Health website.

Distant Object invited to judge IVCA awards

1st February 2011: Distant Object Productions are delighted to announce their involvement in judging the IVCA 2011 awards.

The IVCA awards are Europe’s largest and most prestigious celebration of the best in corporate and public sector communication. IVCA Awards are recognised as the premier marks of excellence for effective business and public sector communications in video, interactive projects, business television and digital media.

Distant Object Productions are delighted to have been officially selected to form part of the judging panel for this years IVCA awards.

"It's a great honour to be invited to judge in these prestigious awards and a wonderful opportunity to be involved in judging a competition in which the quality of entrants is so high" said Zuleika Kingdon, co-founder of Distant Object Productions. "Being involved in the thorough online judging process IVCA have put in place and then meeting the panel of judges face-to-face to select the final award winners was a truly thought-provoking and rewarding experience".

The IVCA Award Ceremony takes place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London this Spring.

Distant Object officially selected for VIDEOMED

19th October 2010: Distant Object Productions today announced that "Understanding High Blood Pressure" has been officially selected for the VIDEOMED International Health and Medical Film Festival.

Distant Object Productions are delighted to have been officially selected for VIDEOMED. VIDEOMED celebrates its 25th year in 2010, with the festival taking place in Badajoz, Spain in November. With affiliate festivals around the world, VIDEOMED is one of the longest established and widest ranging medical film festivals.

"Understanding High Blood Pressure" is a four part DVD consisting of a main documentary, a short drama delivering the key messages, additional patient stories and a doctors' cut explaining treatment guidelines for healthcare professionals and interested patients. Distant Object Production collaborated closely with leading researchers Professors Peter Sever and Neil Poulter and family physician Dr Henry White from Experts In Health to produce a trusted patient education resource from the world experts.

DOP completes edit of "The Island That Time Forgot"

LoluiIslandSkink 9th July 2010: Distant Object Productions today announced the completion of "The Island That Time Forgot".

The Island That Time Forgot follows an adventure on a remote island in Lake Victoria that has the most elaborate collection of ancient rock gongs on the African continent.

Led by Rungwe Kingdon, a cultural arts expedition set out to reawaken the music of the gongs. They discover a previously undocumented rock gong, and a new species of reptile specially adapted to living on the rocks. A specimen is sent for analysis to Stephen Spawls, a herpetologist specializing in East African Reptiles, who confirms it is both new to science and Uganda's only endemic reptile.

Showing a hazardous adventure by canoe, and stunning HD photography this unique island with its ancient Neolithic rock gongs has never been filmed before. It uses a unique sound track of music from the rock gongs played in a fusion of Ugandan folk and modernist classical music and exposes bittersweet contrasts of natural beauty versus the rubbish left by an impoverished human population.

One of the biggest threats to the island, its gongs and its wildlife is the lack of awareness of this expanding fishing population. Is the lizard at risk?