Paul Lazarus is an award-winning director, producer and writer of film, theater and television with more than 30 years of experience. He recently completed a feature documentary called "SlingShot" about Segway inventor Dean Kamen and his work to solve the world's safe water crisis. Below he writes about how he got involved with the project. Above you can watch an exclusive clip from the documentary. In 2006, Dean Kamen told me he was working on a device that could take any form of contaminated water and turn it into safe, potable water. It was in his words: a "point-of-use," "bottom-up," "21st century solution to the 21st century problem" of access to clean water all over the planet. He called it SlingShot, which is reference to the biblical story of David and Goliath. At the time I knew very little about the world's water challenges. Fortunately, I had made over a dozen short...
- 7/10/2015
- by Paul Lazarus
- Indiewire
“A really big person is somebody that doesn’t mind helping everyone else around them be big. A really big person helps everyone else be big and doesn’t use their bigness to help everyone around them be small.” -Dean Kamen- Inventor of the two wheeled standup electric scooter, the Segway
Dean is still alive and inventing products that will help better society despite the rumors that he drove his creation, the Segway, off of a cliff, and died.
The documentary “SlingShot” by Paul Lazarus opens with a stream flowing while a narrator explains that we can empty many of the world’s hospital beds by just providing people access to clean drinking water and distilled water for home dialysis. Fifty percent of all human illnesses are the result of water borne pathogens. The “SlingShot,” which Dean and his team invented, is able to take any type of water, whether it be ground water with metals in it, salty ocean water, bioburdened water, or urine, and make it suitable for drinking.
Learn what Dean Kamen was like as a child, the learning disabilities he’s had to accept, getting back on his bicycle after being bullied, his parental upbringing, his father’s philosophy on life, his own home which is complete with a helicopter garage, steam engines, secret passageways, and a wall of portraits of famous scientists, engineers, and inventors, including, Galileo Galilei, done by his father. Despite being a people person, Dean discusses his own beliefs of whether or not to start his own family, his inventions, his dreams of a time travel machine, his Ted Talks, and the initial stages and larger plans for his innovative “SlingShot,” water purification system, and how it got it’s name.
Will he collaborate with a well known soft drink company which already has it’s product all over the world with the hopes that they will assist the “SlingShot” to also be shipped to other countries all over the world?
An overnight success takes 20 years in the making.
Opens July 10th, 2015 @ Cinema Village in New York City, NY.
Opens July 17th @ Laemmle Theaters in Santa Monica and Pasadena, CA.
Opens July 26th @ PhilaMOCA in Philadelphia, Pa.
Opens in August @ the Center for Contemporary Arts (Cca) in Santa Fe, Nm.
Dean is still alive and inventing products that will help better society despite the rumors that he drove his creation, the Segway, off of a cliff, and died.
The documentary “SlingShot” by Paul Lazarus opens with a stream flowing while a narrator explains that we can empty many of the world’s hospital beds by just providing people access to clean drinking water and distilled water for home dialysis. Fifty percent of all human illnesses are the result of water borne pathogens. The “SlingShot,” which Dean and his team invented, is able to take any type of water, whether it be ground water with metals in it, salty ocean water, bioburdened water, or urine, and make it suitable for drinking.
Learn what Dean Kamen was like as a child, the learning disabilities he’s had to accept, getting back on his bicycle after being bullied, his parental upbringing, his father’s philosophy on life, his own home which is complete with a helicopter garage, steam engines, secret passageways, and a wall of portraits of famous scientists, engineers, and inventors, including, Galileo Galilei, done by his father. Despite being a people person, Dean discusses his own beliefs of whether or not to start his own family, his inventions, his dreams of a time travel machine, his Ted Talks, and the initial stages and larger plans for his innovative “SlingShot,” water purification system, and how it got it’s name.
Will he collaborate with a well known soft drink company which already has it’s product all over the world with the hopes that they will assist the “SlingShot” to also be shipped to other countries all over the world?
An overnight success takes 20 years in the making.
Opens July 10th, 2015 @ Cinema Village in New York City, NY.
Opens July 17th @ Laemmle Theaters in Santa Monica and Pasadena, CA.
Opens July 26th @ PhilaMOCA in Philadelphia, Pa.
Opens in August @ the Center for Contemporary Arts (Cca) in Santa Fe, Nm.
- 7/1/2015
- by Sharon Abella
- Sydney's Buzz
The 2014 Boston Film Festival has unveiled its awards recipients, following its 30th program that ran September 24-28 in Theatre 1 at the Revere Hotel Boston Common. The biography ‘Wild,’ drama ‘White Rabbit’ and the documentary ‘Zemene’ led the films that were honored by the festival. This year’s Boston Film Festival Award winners are: Best Film: ‘Wild’ Best Actor: Nick Krause, ‘White Rabbit’ Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, ‘Wild’ Best Supporting Actor: Sam Trammell, ‘White Rabbit’ Best Supporting Actress: Britt Robertson: ‘White Rabbit’ Best Documentary: ‘Zemene’ Best Director: Paul Lazarus, ‘SlingShot’ Mass Impact: ‘Widowmaker’ EcoFilm: ‘SlingShot’ Best Cinematography: ‘Zemene’ Best Music: ‘The Winding Stream’ Best Editing: ‘Zemene’ Audience Favorite: ‘Playing for [ Read More ]
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- 10/14/2014
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
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