We are in the Costco Connections Magazine

RJ McHatton and Inventive Productions were mentioned in a nice article in this month's "Costco Connection" magazine which has estimated 20 million readers. The article has RJ's photo in there, too!

You can read the article by CLICKING HERE

Hug a Veteran - Happy Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day!

Over the past four years we have been blessed to be able to interview many Veterans for our video biography projects and also for the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress.

Here are just a few great short clips from our interviews with Veterans.

I hope you like the videos and you take the time to thank a Veteran everyday.

A FEW INTERVIEWS WITH VETERANS or ABOUT VETERANS

Bob Hoover

John Myers

General Bill Anders

Al Farmer

Larry Morris

Dave Divelbiss

Bill Endicott

Dean Echelbarger

Douglas Morehouse

New Fighting Seabees Documentary

John Kneepkens

Leo Hymas: Leo the Liberator

Edwin Allen Nixon

Achilles Savinelli

Claxton Johnson

David Richardson

Norris J. Bevan

Ward W. Martin

Dr. Forrest Bird

The New Fighting Seabees Documentary Movie Trailer

Oren Barker

Harold Knudsen

Harold Knudsen playing the piano

Bill and Dorothy Shaw

Ted Kilcup

Magda Newman

Ship of Miracles Movie Trailer

Angus Robson

Luke & Grace Kim

Ray Slaugh

Gordon Graham

Thanks for all your support of our Video Biography work.

We really appreciate your friendship.

Warm regards,

RJ McHatton

Inventive Productions

www.inventiveproductions.com

(425) 284-1900

P.S. Remember we will travel anywhere in the world to do the interviews.

Video Shoot at WA State Criminal Justice Training Academy

Director RJ McHatton with Law Enforcement expert Gordon Graham

We drove down to Burien to shoot four short films for the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Academy. The four films are focused on the SAFE CALL NOW program. Safe Call Now is a non-profit that tries to help prevent suicide or substance abuse among public safety employees. You can learn more about Safe Call Now atwww.safecallnow.org We shot a great introduction by nationally recognized expert Gordon Graham, then used real life police officers, fire fighters, and EMTS in the scripted video production. I was particularly impressed with this Gordon Graham. I call him “this” Gordon Graham because I have known the “other” Gordon Graham for over 20 years. You can learn more about this Gordon Graham atwww.gordongraham.com

Here are some pictures of the volunteers who helped with our video production.

Thank you so much to the great volunteers who helped out with the production of these four videos. They came in during their day off. We are very grateful for their excellent commitment to helping others.

Fire 20/20 Director Larry Sagen with Gordon Graham

We also shot an interview with Gordon Graham for the non-profit Fire 20/20 about diversity in the Firefighting industry. You can learn more about Fire 20/20 at www.fire2020.org

Inventive Productions mentioned in Puget Sound Business Journal article

RJ McHatton and Inventive Productions were mentioned in an article by writer Patti Payne in this week’s Puget Sound Business Journal.

Here is a link to the article:

http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/10/26/tidbits1.html

Peter Allen talks about Johnny Myers - Part One

Peter Allen talks about Johnny Myers - Part Two

A nice visit with author Larry Lehmer

Author Larry Lehmer

I had a great meeting with author Larry Lehmer over at the Monaco Hotel in Seattle. Larry is a former journalist from Des Moines, Iowa who has helped numerous people write their memoirs. Larry is also a former member of the Association of Personal Historians and the author of the bestselling book “The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens” (Schirmer Books). We talked about the current state of the Personal Historian business and some of the best ways to do an interview. It was great meeting Larry and I appreciate him taking the time to visit with me. You can learn more about Larry Lehmer athttp://www.google.com/profiles/larrylehmer

Carroll Shelby talks about John Myers ("Flying Man")

I really enjoyed meeting Carroll Shelby. He talked alot about his growing, his father, his heroes, and car racing. Here he talks about his friend John Myers aka "Flying Man."

Tom Jones remembers his friend Johnny Myers ("Flying man"

Here is a short video from our interview with Tom Jones for my documentary film “Flying Man: Life and Times of John Myers.”

You can learn more about this film at www.flyingmandocumentary.com

Maria and Griff Get Married - The documentary

Maria and Griff enter the beautiful Wedding Reception where a lots wonderful surprises awaited them

Maria's Parents Doug & Lori Williams and Grandparents Bud & Dolores Anthony

Its been a journey of joy working on the documentary “Maria and Griff Get Married.” Part one of the documentary was shown at the great Wedding Reception last night at Herban Feast in the Sodo section of Seattle. Stacy Kvam and her team did a fantastic job in organizing the wedding. Over the past few weeks I have interviewed several members of both Maria’s and Griff’s family. Since Griff is from Texas, I interviewed his mom and brother over the phone, and then several of his friends and family at last night’s reception. The video has been a secret to the Bride and groom so I hadn’t met them until last night. Everything went perfect. It was great to also meet some of Maria’s cousins who flew in from Germany and a lot of Griff’s friends in from Austin, Texas. You can learn more about Stacy Kvam atwww.skweddingandeventdesign.com and Herban Feast atwww.herbanfeast.com You can learn about Maria and Griff athttp://www.mywedding.com/griffandmaria/