Since our inception in 2003, we have completed the pilot episode of our first television series, "Vanishing Cultures". This initial program visits a troubled Bushman community in Botswana whose once thriving culture is now facing extinction. This one-hour documentary takes a never-before-seen look at the fascinating history, the brutal struggles, and the seemingly impossible challenges of the Bushmen of the Kalahari.
Springbok Films also recently Executive Produced its first feature film, "The Enigma with A Stigma", an improvised mockumentary that revolves around a fictitious body part called a "Euclid." The plot follows the plight of a central character, Max Angeli, as he makes a shocking discovery, encounters an eclectic mix of characters and finally struggles to embrace a hidden subculture.
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Paula Ely has been involved in the entertainment industry since 1991, when she joined Carolco Television, the television production and syndication division of Carolco Pictures. Paula was involved in the sale and distribution of the Carolco and LIVE Entertainment libraries to the pay-per-view, cable, and free television markets before the company shuttered in 1993. After consulting with Carolco on the sale of their library assets to the Worldvision company, Paula joined Jeff Kazmark, with whom she had worked at Carolco, to form Kazmark Entertainment Group, a firm created to create television advertising and programming trade opportunities in association with a major advertising agency and its media buying arm. At Kazmark Entertainment, Paula oversees all of the company's financial and personnel responsibilities and negotiates program acquisition agreements with leading production companies. Paula was an Executive Producer of a short film about the music of the Christmas season in Harlem entitled "Merry Christmas, Baby", which has been entered into the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. She also oversaw the creation of Springbok Films, a division of Kazmark Entertainment created in 2002, and line produced its first feature, "The Enigma With A Stigma", an improvised comedy currently seeking distribution. In 2003, Paula traveled to Botswana to produce the recently completed documentary "Vanishing Cultures: Bushmen of the Kalahari" and plans to continue the series on other endangered cultures around the world. She has also long been involved in community service, and received the Volunteer of the Year award in 1994 from PAWS/LA, an organization working to keep people with debilitating illnesses together with their companion animals. She has also taught as a volunteer adult literacy tutor with the Los Angeles Public Library literacy program and has worked as a volunteer with service programs in Cartago, Costa Rica and Prampram, Ghana. Paula has been recognized for her photography as well. She has been a featured artist in PAWS/LA’s annual fundraising art auction for the past two years, and was awarded an honorable mention in an international "decisive moment" competition by the renowned organization Women In Photography.
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