Lago de Atitlain. It was going well enough. Filming on a lancha boat while crossing the lake at sunrise seemed like an excellent beginning to an adventurous day. A day I now refer to as the “Day of accidents” or the “Day in Guate” with zero affection. Little did we know that swinging through Guatemala […]

Oh, how much has happened since the last post!
Our arrival in Antigua, Guatemala was a welcome one after 48 hours of bus rides and an all-night dance party with the girls in San Salvador. A beautiful colonial city with cobblestone streets and a piece of history on every block, Antigua is the kind of place […]

Hola from Guatemala! The Beckoning Road production team has been on location in Central America for one action-packed week now. The team consists of: Daniel Mode (yours truly), the director of this project; Michael Thomas, our Director of Photography and Operator; Allen Noonan our Sound man, Boom Op and Utility Infielder; and the lovely Valerie […]

Elevation: 6215 feet
We arrived in the small hamlet of San Francisco de Sales in our second week on the road as the hot noon sun beat down on the roof of the old Blue Bird. Our old bus crawled into town, belching large clouds of black smoke at young children with bored and sullen faces […]

Well we’re a month into shooting our test episodic following the lovely Amy and Marisol through South and Central America and our first, and hopefully last, production snafu has occured. While dancing at a Capoeira spot in a small town in Southern Brazil, Amy left her bag at the table and it was stolen. Now […]