Film and Video Production
Spence Palermo’s 30+film career includes writing, producing, filming, directing and editing documentaries, PSA’s and informational and educational films (in Spanish and English) as well as crew experience on every kind of production, from Hollywood feature films to natural history and international documentaries filmed in over 30 countries (Does Lichtenstein count?) Spence's work as a location sound recordist contributed to an Emmy Award (Morocco 1998) and an Oscar nomination for best short doc (India 2009).
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Spence and Werner on Location in Katmai National Park, AK.
Grizzly Man
An incredible experience, working with one of my film school heros, the legendary Werner Herzog. We spent several weeks in Alaska's wilderness looking for "Bad" bears following the trail of Timothy Treadwell. What a tale!
"My Father's Dream"
Recording Sound for a Mercedes add campaign on Oregon's Alvord Desert.
The story of the realization of the lifelong dream of a blind mechanic; To drive a high performance car. His son is his sighted co-piot. Get out your hankies.
Crossing the Ganges at dawn with a polio vaccination team.
" The Final Inch"
Nominated for the Oscar for "Best Short Documentary" in 2009 Our team spent several weeks filming in India with the World Health Organization documenting their efforts to eradicate polio from this populous country.