Our logo. Read the story of how it all began here...http://bit.ly/9A4Bwh
Speak Up Productions LLC logo (artwork by John Choura)
Nearly half the world lives in Poverty. Learn more here...www.bit.ly/6J2TGZ
Inspiring Pic of Speaking UP-Civil Rights Sit-in
Courage - Tiananmen Square in China 1989
Rob and Dan became friends at Church back in 2002
Dan led a small group on doubt that Rob was apart of. Over the next few years, Rob would completely lose belief in God and become a staunch Athiest.
Rob and Dan together on the right the night before Dan leaves the country for the first time.
The Kibera Slum in Nairobi, Kenya, the place that inspired the movie Give A Damn?
Dan in Kibera
Dan and David become good friends. Here they are on Mexico missions trip with Church.
In 2006, David goes to Kenya. He is forever changed.
Dan and John started the Global Justice Project. It is still going at Meramec. http://globaljusticeproject.blogspot.com/
The Global Justice Project. Dan speaking to crowd about Child Soldiers in Uganda in 2006
Dan speaking to news about Invisible Children's Global Night Commute in St. Louis.
St. Louis Global Night Commute. (invisiblechildren.com) This is Dan & David's first activist event they lead.
David and Dan before Dan heads to film school.
Their famous My Girl dance
Rob and Dan in Yosemite March 2007
Dan agrees to go to Africa with Dan
On top of the waterfall, one of many days of hiking together. Watch the original trailer...http://bit.ly/9vqs4O
Rob in a nutshell
Brainstorming for Give A Damn? Oct 07
Dan gets stitches while screwing around filming. Watch the video...http://bit.ly/9j2QaQ. It happens at about 3 min
Rob goes all out for 2 second scene in trailer
John Choura, the original artist who designed the logos, the proposal, the website and created the first white-T Give A Damn? shirt
Our first booth with banner created by Kyle Mont G at Biola Rock for Justice event
Give A Damn? booth at Biola Media Conference May 2008. http://www.biolamedia.com/
Dan graduates, now Give A Damn? really begins.
The Team (Dan, David, Rob) after filming Man on the Street Interviews in St. Louis June 2008. We shot these videos:http://bit.ly/91lxqx & http://bit.ly/aFIceE
Lunch in San Diego California after doing Invisible Children Interviews (Special thanks to Rachel Burney, Ricky Norris, Kyle Stryker & Invisible Children)
GAD? team w/Laren Poole, Invisible Children Founder July 08
GAD? team w/Jason Russell, Invisible Children Founder July 08. Check out a short clip: http://bit.ly/9xGyGu.
Kyle Mont G & Rock 4 Justice team repping GAD? at Warp Tour. Check out Rock for Justice website...http://www.rockforjustice.org/
Handmade, old school GAD? T's. Buy a shirt...http://bit.ly/cqxdwu
Self-explanatory
David & Dan spoke at Social Justice Speaker Series Oct 08
David & Dan w/Paul Rusesabagina, real life hero of Hotel Rwanda. Check out a short clip from the interview: http://bit.ly/bAb4wE.
Invitation to Nov 15th fundraiser, our most successful fundraiser
We were apart of Biola Universities week for Africa (special thanks to Courtney Patton)
Krew students raised over $2200 for GAD?, girls won the competition
David created this guide for Activists (buy on our site for $5)...www.bit.ly/cqxdwu
Benefit organized by great friends of Ours at Biola. Special thanks to http://lovenailtree.com
Merch table
Our friends (from left to right...Tabitha, Courtney, Kelly, and Ashley) You guys rock!
Benefit organized by Rock4Justice for GAD?, thanks Mitchell, the RFJ team (http://rockforjustice.org), Antiquiet (http://www.antiquiet.com/) and the bands!
Free Moral Agents at GAD?/RFJ Benefit Concert (http://www.myspace.com/freemoralagents)
St. Louis Benefit Concert (Special thanks to J.R. (http://www.myspace.com/jrinstereo), the Chapel (http://www.chapelvenue.com/), and of course, David)
Rob & David discuss pushing trip back one day (July 4th, 09)
Great article by Suburban Journal (Special Thanks to Mary Shapiro & Kellee Sikes) Check out the whole story..http://bit.ly/9y3Gd0
Getting Ready to Leave
Getting ready for our first steps East
Kristen, Dan's girlfriend, works the camera
A tribute to our original trailer
The beginning of an epic adventure
Long Shutter Guerrilla pod On top of the Lumiere Casino
Night One: Slept in an abandoned warehouse in STL
The trains woke us up about every half hour. Rob didn't sleep much though
Graffiti wisdom
A shot of the warehouse that we slept in
The other side of the warehouse, there were about 15 total homeless people sleeping there, some were big into the drugs, the ones we stayed with were into being happy campers
found a can of spray paint... Why not?
top floor of the building, overlooking the Mississippi
Insert deeper meaning here
Crossing the bridge into East STL
First ride, from downtown East STL to.... Downtown East STL. Short but sweet
He just put us back on the highway, where we were stopped by a cop and told to leave the city before it got dark. We then hopped on the Metro-link and made it to Scott Airforce base
Walking down the interstate on day 2. We got a ride from the metro link station to a small town in Illinois, and then we camped in a cornfield behind McDonalds. Soon after this shot we got picked up and driven all the way to Evansville, Indiana
The Lovely ladies that took care of us that night in Evansville. We initially met Johnna, far right, at a coffee house. She then called her friends and we ended up hanging out with them that night, being fed and bought a bunch of beer. Not gonna lie, it was amazing.
Evansville, IN... The truth
The ladies introduced us to Kory, he let us crash at his place. A great host.
creepy similarity
Louisville KY, Wayside Christian Mission's choir
our room at the homeless shelter that we stayed at
this happened more that a few times while hiking down the interstate
While hiking thru KY, we saw a sign for 2 seminaries. We thought we would try and ask for help and see if Christians were responsive. No help from the seminary itself but the first person we met at the desk ended up buying us lunch and donating some money to be spent on future Case studies.
Preying mantis on Rob's head
Kentucky barrel whiskey that was given to us by our host at his farm in the middle of Kentucky. That day a cop told us weren't allowed on the interstate, and then he took us to a rest stop to try and hitch hike there. We got kicked out of the rest stop, and ended up going to the on ramp and hoping someone would pick us up before the cops were called again, and luckily we did. We ended up in a small town at a gas station where we were trying to chill out on the side of the building until morning. Everything was fine until we got into a yelling match and attracted the attention of management. Then a man was nice enough to take us back to his farm, so the cops didn't have to be called. This ended the hitchhiking section of the US and we called in a ride from Dan's great Aunt and Uncle who happened to be in Louisville at an antique collectible fishing lure convention.... you can't make that up. They drove us to Washington DC, where their home is
where we stayed in KY,
Touristy crap
On a $25 bus from DC to NY
Our first bus ride, but it would not be the last
Hiking through London
Dr. Voss is the man. Bought us two meals in Canterbury. Snuck us into his dorm room and delivered a great interview. He was Dan and David's professor for the class Wealth and Poverty of Nations that was one of the big inspirations to make Give A Damn?
Sleeping on the White cliffs of Dover
Timelapse shooting of sunset in Dover
Cherries that we found on the cliffs, they fed us that morning and for a couple of days. Not too bad
The port and white cliffs
Ferry ridin fun
Our host gave us some eggs to eat with our Ramen in Geneva, this was our first couch surfing experience (www.couchsurfing.com)
Geneva chickens
Hiking to the mountain on one of our light days
Waiting on the sunset timelapse shot
10 second shutter i believe, guerrilla pod shot of the city of Geneva at night
Long shutter
all the food that we found on farms and in dumpsters on the way home
found a bunch of snails, thought we'd try and find some way to cook them for protein.... Our couch surfing host vetoed it and let them go, which we were all relieved that we didnt have to eat them
Brent, great guy and fellow couch surfer
all of our found food, and 2 packs of ramen
One of the chickens wandered in when we were loading our packs to depart Geneva
After our meeting with the UN Ambassador of Rwanda. Along with Cynthia, who rocks faces off
BORIIIIISSSS!!!!!!!! What would we have done without him? A Rwandan who fed us and let us crash at his place for 2 days.
If on fire, Run this way? I don't have time to read yo signs, I'M ON FIRE! found at the UN.... what do you do if you're on fire in the middle?
Awesome UN interviews with Norbert and Janvier, both economic affairs officers at the UNCTD that specialize on African issues (http://bit.ly/bArja2)
Clearance.... notice the Staff indicator
Global fund interview with Andrew Hurst , senior communications office, Global Fund is the world's largest organization in the world fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria (http://bit.ly/bKciYt)
Venice, in front of some church which Rob was thrilled to look at....
after sleeping in a park in Venice
the best use of our oatmeal that we could think of
grabbing pigeons
grabbing & flicking pigeons
venice boat ride to the train station
Heading to the train station to start the trip to Croatia
Croatia, we found cheap and free food
Croatia
Serbia
Serbia conflict damage, still not repaired
Penny, a fellow traveler that tolerated how bad we stunk and hung out with us from Croatia to Serbia. Awesome chick.
Ashkali slum in Serbia. Many recycle to make ends meet.
Young Ashkali girl in slum. Check out Dan's blog on visiting the slum: www.bit.ly/cVw26x
Young Ashkali breakdancer
Dan filming in Ashkali/Gypsy slum in Novi Sad, Serbia
From Left to Right (Veda, David, Rob, Ashkali President, Dan, the President's son) Learn more about the Ashkali people here: (http://bit.ly/a2i4vA)
David in Greece
First Night in Africa
Entering Kibera on second day in Africa
Tim cameraman & adventurer
Young boy in Kibera, it is estimated that about 50,000 orphans in Kibera
Rob & Dan on plane just minutes before crash
Our plane after it crashed & blew up. Our film is dedicated to Frank Toews and Ryan Williams, two men who gave their lives while helping us. (http://bit.ly/18X1y9)
Dan & Rob were rushed to the hospital by local Kenyans
David holding Dan's hand
Dan suffered a L3 compression fracture, broken collar bone, and paralytic ileus. Watch the video as Dan recounts the crash while in hospital bed...http://bit.ly/c8Yc2P
Rob's cleaning himself off in Hospital Bathroom. Read Rob's blog recounting the crash: http://bit.ly/95XTiv
Rob being interviewed less than an hour after Crash by Kenyan News. Watch the story here: http://bit.ly/cEvF5F
We were taken to the best hospital in East Africa. Great doctors and nurses!
Rob getting six stitches
Can you find the compression fracture?
Dan and Rob were able to room together while in the hospital
Rob stayed in the hospital for 5 days
Dan had to get a tube down his throat. He remained in the hospital two weeks.
The project continues as Dan and Rob prepare to go home. Read Rob's blog about heading back to the States: http://bit.ly/bOREt5
Tape retrieved from our main camera. David at local police station.
David & Grace (read the blog on Grace ...http://bit.ly/a4d5wN)
One of Grace's orphans (http://bit.ly/a4d5wN)
Among his many talents, David is also a musician. Read this blog about Tim and David's experience in Congo. (www.bit.ly/5abpm)
Tim and David interviewed all kinds of people on the causes & solutions to extreme poverty (www.bit.ly/1ILnCl)
David and Tim visit 6 countries including Sudan and Congo. Check out these other blogs from their trip: www.bit.ly/ObwX2 & www.bit.ly/Xsr91
GAD? team w/Mike Bush. Ch 5 story (http://www.bit.ly/8dReAI)
March 2011 - Q&A after film screening at Crystal City High School
Give A Damn? screening at Washington University in St. Louis.
August 14, 2011 - St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase at the Tivoli in the Delmar Loop, St. Louis. Give A Damn? won best documentary.
Audience listens to Q&A after the screening at Greenville College
About 100 people showed up to our Franciscan sisters film screening.
Give A Damn? screening at Biola University
St. Louis Community College Meramec screening
Dan Parris answers questions after the film screening at Franciscan Sisters.
