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Eagle Peak Media is a non-profit company where creativity is combined with a sense of social and community responsibility. Everything we create is driven by a single word: Story. We love great stories. We recognize their timeless and universal appeal. Whether in film, the internet, or the printed word, we strive to find, create (in our fiction), and bring great stories to the widest possible audiences. Our logo says it all: Story is our passion©
Eagle Peak was founded in the spring of 2008 by writer/journalist G. Wayne Miller and director David Bettencourt. They met in 1992 when Bettencourt was a teenager and Miller, wearing his journalist's hat, was writing his second non-fiction book, COMING OF AGE: The True Adventures of Two American Teens. Bettencourt went on to earn a master's degree from Boston University in filmmaking and become an adjunct professor teaching film at Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island. He also teaches film at Salve Regina University.
Miller and Bettencourt began their latest creative partnership in the fall of 2007, when they decided to make ON THE LAKE: Life and Love in a Distant Place, an idea that grew out of discussions they had after The Providence (R.I.) Journal published Miller's 14th newspaper series, The Growing Season. Miller remains a staff writer for The Journal.
The ideas kept coming, one thing led to another, and by early 2008 it was apparent that they and the highly talented crew who work with them needed a larger concept -- an umbrella company -- into which projects past, present and future could fit. And thus Eagle Peak Media was born...
By the summer of 2009, Eagle Peak Media was firmly on the map. ON THE LAKE premiered to rave reviews, was (and continues to be) broadcast on PBS affiliates in many markets coast-to-coast, and was a major attraction
at the 2009 Rhode Island International Film Festival. It was nominated for a New England Emmy in April 2010. Eagle Peak's second major production, BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society, a feature length documentary about the secret world of old-money Newport, Rhode Island, a world that traces its roots
to The Gilded Age, when Vanderbilts and Astors in their outlandish Bellevue Avenue mansions reigned supreme. HEDGEROW premiered in Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence, R.I., on Aug. 10, 2010, as the feature presentation of the opening night of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, earned four-star reviews and a mountain of publicity, sold out at the Aug. 10 Newport premiere, and had a long run at Newport's Jane Pickens thater. More Eagle Peak projects are in the planning.
So what about the name? It was May 9, 2008, and Bettencourt and Miller were on an Acela train bound for Johns Hopkins University to film one of the world's leading tuberculosis scientists for ON THE LAKE. For weeks, Miller and Bettencourt had been struggling with a name, but nothing seemed to fit. And then, at about 11 a.m., after passing through New York's Penn Station, Bettencourt suggested the name of the road where Miller lived at the time: Eagle Peak. It had a good ring to it, and it hearkened to the many discussions at Miller's kitchen table that (with beer and chili) helped fuel creativity. Bettencourt pulled out his ubiquitous iPhone, found that eaglepeakmedia.com was available, and the name was ordered and confirmed by 12:07 p.m., when the train arrived in Baltimore. Not a great story, perhaps, but now you know...
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