For Immediate Release; Distributed December 8, 2009:

Local Video Production Company Hits

National "Best of" List

Sun Devil Productions provides bright spot for local economy

Scottsdale, Ariz.:-- The U.S. Commerce Association in Washington D.C. has selected Sun Devil Productions, a full-service television and video company located in ASU SkySong in Scottsdale, as the recipient of the 2009 Best of Scottsdale Award in the Motion Picture and Video Production category.

Each year, the USCA identifies companies they believe have achieved “exceptional marketing success in their local community and business categories,” according to the USCA. “These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.”

Since opening its doors in September 2008, SDP has undertaken notable projects to serve both the profit and nonprofit sectors. These include filming an archaeological dig at a prehistoric site in South Africa alongside Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins; filming President Barack Obama when he spoke at ASU’s 2009 Spring Commencement Ceremony; and providing an area kidney medical practice the means for educating their patients. SDP has also filmed the ASU Professor of the Year Awards, developed a commercial aimed at combating human trafficking for the International Rescue Committee and is currently covering ASU’s current football season.

"When we founded Sun Devil one year ago, we wanted to provide quality video production and editing services while offering students in the ASU Film and Media Production program an opportunity to grow and learn,” said SDP co-founder Peter Van Wolvelaerd. “This award from the USCA validates that we are achieving our goals. We look forward to serving the greater Arizona business and non-profit communities in the future."

The team at SDP is eager to continue working with current and future clients and is dedicated to providing exceptional service and incomparable creativity to reach new heights in the production industry.

Sun Devil offers a wide array of production services including: project conceptualization, producing and directing, broadcast quality video and film production, both on-location and in-studio, computer-based video editing and motion graphics, and distribution and duplication in various multimedia formats. The company’s post-production facilities include state-of-the-art, non-linear video editing and motion graphics hardware and software. Sun Devil Productions will tap into a strong network of creative producers, writers, directors and production personnel throughout the country in addition to their team in the Southwestern United States and its stable of eager and enthusiastic ASU students.

Sun Devil Productions is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Company.

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Media Contact:

Amanda Debons

Amanda@sundevilproductions.com

For Immediate Release; Distributed June 29, 2009:

Documenting the Big Dig:

Sun Devil Productions partners with international scientists

to film prehistoric site in South Africa

Scottsdale, AZ – A team of internationally renowned archaeologists assembled at Mossel Bay, South Africa this summer is searching for information about the earliest behaviors of our earliest ancestors from the Middle Stone Age. Among the team will be Sun Devil Productions (SDP) filmmaker Janaki Cedanna, who is documenting the dig and, if hopes and expectations are met, will record new insights into how man lived, hunted and worked some 100,000 years ago.

The scientists are led by Curtis Marean of the Institute of Human Origins (IHO) at Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change. The transdiciplinary team seeks to expand our understanding of the emergence of Homo Sapiens. Dr. Marean and his co-authors announced in Nature in 2007 the earliest evidence for shellfish in the human diet, as well as very early the use of pigments.

Sun Devil Productions, a full service television and video company located at ASU SkySong, specializes in assisting nonproft, educational and scientific projects in their video production needs. The SDP filmmaker will document the dig in the famed caves along the Western Cape of South Africa, between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. He will also capture footage that will be used on IHO’s website (BecomingHuman.org), which provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on the human condition for students worldwide. Contemporary scientists will demonstrate on the website how prehistoric man first forged simple tools – hand axes, points and blades -- from stone.

SDP’s work is co-sponsored by Bogen Imaging, an international photography and video accessories distributor (including products from Manfrotto, Kata, Gitzo, Lastolite, Formatt Filters and National Geogrraphic). Bogen has donated everything from raingear to tripods, heads, stands and filters to LED lighting to equipment bags. Zylight, a leader in professional LED lighting instruments, provided a new model of large LED lighting that is not yet available for public use. Cedanna plans to blog about the trip, pending Internet access. He will be featured on Bogen Imaging’s educational website Bogen Café and on SunDevilProductions.com.

The site at Pinnacle Point near Mossel Bay has been a rich source for archaeologists in recent years due to the discovery of bone tools in the area’s cramped, beachside caves. Also found there has been evidence of artistic expression among early cave dwellers, which has in turn raised debates over the development of modern human behavior. It is in this area that the IHO team hopes to make their contribution to the world’s understanding of early man.

Cedanna will return the first week of July. Check out SunDevilProductions for future insights and blogs.

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Janaki Cedanna of Sun Devil Productions with Dr. Curtis Marean at the Mossel Bay dig in South Africa. Scientists at Mossel Bay in South Africa are working to understand how the earliest man shaped stone to create the first tools. Sun Devil Productions is documenting the dig.

Media Contact:

Laurie Trotta

laurie@sundevilproductions.com

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Distributed June 8, 2009:

Commemorative Video of President Barack Obama's

ASU Commencement Address

Tempe, AZ:-- Sun Devil Productions, a full service television and video company located at ASU Sky Song, today premiered a 2–minute commemorative film of President Barack Obama’s Arizona State University 2009 Spring Commencement Ceremony.

The film documents the historic landing of Air Force One at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport and offers glimpses of the more than 70,000 people who filled Sun Devil Stadium on May 13 to watch 9,267 graduates seal their academic achievement and shake the president’s hand.

The sights and sounds of the day were captured by Sun Devil Production’s team of professional filmmakers, who are making this inspirational footage available, free of charge for viewing at: www.SunDevilProductions.com. Sun Devil Productions has also posted the video on Facebook and Youtube.

Viewers will relive highlights of Obama’s speech, wherein he urged graduates not to settle for past achievements, but to continue to push ahead for future growth and service, as well as ASU President Michael Crow’s introduction of the President. They will hear the strains of the ASU Marching Band and have a look at the pre-ceremony entertainment and other moments of the historic day in Tempe.

“We hope this is something the graduates can treasure for a long time to come,” said SDP production coordinator Megan Van Wolvelaerd, who edited the video.

Sun Devil Productions is committed to providing ASU students and graduates with unique and invaluable professional experience. Although independent from ASU, SDP is affiliated with the ASU Herberger School of Theatre and Film. The production crews are led by professionals with many years of diverse experience in the film and television industry, and skilled Film and Media Production students work as crew.

Sun Devil offers a wide array of production services including: project conceptualization, producing and directing, broadcast quality video and film production both on-location and in-studio, computer-based video editing and motion graphics, and distribution and duplication in various multimedia formats. The company’s post-production facilities include state-of-the-art, non-linear video editing and motion graphics hardware and software. Sun Devil Productions will tap into a strong network of creative producers, writers, directors and production personnel throughout the country in addition to their team in the Southwestern United States and its stable of eager and enthusiastic ASU students.

Sun Devil Productions is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Company. Among its exciting projects in production is a documentary that will capture exclusive footage of an archaeological dig led by the ASU Institute for Human Origins at Mossel Bay in South Africa this summer.

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