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 - About
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Eagle Peak Media is a non-profit company where creativity is combined with a sense of responsibility to the commonweal. Everything we do here 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©
EPM was founded in 2008 by director David Bettencourt and writer/journalist G. Wayne Miller. 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.
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.
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...
So what about the name? It was May 9, 2008, and Bettencourt, Miller and key staff member Jeff Toste 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 lives: 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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