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This has been an extremely busy and adventure filled summer for Hemmings House. Greg is very please to have hired to great employees to help push the business to the next level, welcome Andrew MacCormack and Steve Foster to the House. We have been working hard on multiple projects this summer. Please check out Greg's blog to read up on the adventure. Some of the projects are

1. Coaches. Greg has been traveling from Italy to France, From Hawaii to California, From BC to Buffalo and beyond filming a documentary all about the philosophies of coaching. Coaching of all forms, but based around Greg's experiences with an executive coach. This project is slated for release January 08.

2. Hemmings House has partnered with Acrolet International's Semra Yuksel to film a documentary about the history of Sabian Cymbals. As a drummer, Greg is excited to be filming this project for Bravo! and CBC.

3. We have partnered with legendary folk giant Brent mason and shot a pilot episode for a TV series called "Grave Concerns". This show will travel North America in a hearse in search of the graves of famous dead people!!! How fun! We shot epsiode 1 in Lowell Mass. as we explored the life and death of Jack Kerouac...truly an inspirational subject for us!

4. We just got back from the Northern lands of Nunavik filming half of our documentary called "Weather Bomb". This documentary is about the affects of global warming on the Inuit. This is a co-production with Italy's SGI and will initially air on RAI in Italy. We will be completing the filming in the arctic in the March of 08.

5. We are almost finished the concert DVD production for "THICK AND THIN". This concert was shot at the Imperial Theater with Matt Andersen and Ros Neilson, two of our gems in the Maritime blues scene.

6. There are many other projects in development including music videos, commercial and corporate videos, concerts and many more! Stay tuned!

MAY 11, 2007
Greg Hemmings along with his past HIT! Media partners Andrew Tidby and Glenn Ingersoll, and producers Steve Belyea and Dean Roberts (Base Racing) where honored with an XTREMEY AWARD (www.xtremey.net) for best instructional video for MARTY SMITH MOTOCROSS CLINIC (Sam please link to the video sample in the screening room)

Hemmings attended the Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles to receive this prestigious award.

May, 2007
Production for Wrestling Reality was extremely successful drawing hundreds each night to arenas and venues throughout Atlantic Canada. The documentary series for the Fight Network will be going into post production in June and will be delivered to the network in September. Please see www.wrestlingreality.com for more info!

April, 2007
Rubabicon made its broadcast debut on the Independent Film Channel (IFC). It is on rotation on the IFC. Big shout out the Grand Theft Bus!

The Biggest News in Maritime Wrestling History. Maritime Wrestlers to be featured in International Television Series.
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Marty Smith Motocross DVD has been nominated for an Xtremey Award! We are very honored to have been nominated. Please help us out by voting for “BEST INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO” and click on MARTY SMITH, there are a lot of great nominees, all with video clips, so please check them out and vote!

Way back at the beginnings of my last company; HIT! Media (Andrew Tidby, Glenn Ingersoll, Greg Hemmings), our first project was the Marty Smith Motocross Clinic DVD. Andrew Tidby, Dean Roberts, Toby Bourque and I flew down with Steve Belyea of Base Racing to San Diego to film this instructional DVD by one of the most famous and influential Motocross racers in the world…Marty Smith. It turned out really well, and has a killer sound track (thanks a lot Slowcoaster, Ermine, JSB, and Grand Theft Bus).

Anyway, I finally found distribution for the DVD 4 years later and it just got nominated for Best Instructional Video at this year’s Extremey Awards (this is a very prestigious awards show for Extreme Sports Video Producers). Please forward this email to as many of you friends as you can and please ask them to forward it to as many friends as they can (wow Im a spammer now!).

Please take the 90 seconds and vote for our video! So much appreciated! You can see a clip of the vid at the vote link as well. You have to cast a vote for all categories, but there are video clips and synopsis for each one.

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Hemmings House Pictures has signed a broadcast deal with The Fight Network to produce a 6 part documentary series about the life of pro wrestlers on the road. We are going to camera in May and will go to broadcast this fall! More to come.

Planet Luxury to Premier on CTV Travel + Escape Monday, Feb 19th, 2007.

What is it like to live in the lap of luxury and how much does it cost to get there?  Find out where the wealthy are spending their money – and on what – in Travel + Escape’s new 10-part series Planet Luxury.  Premiering Mon., Feb. 19 at 8:30 p.m. ET/9:30 p.m. PT, each half-hour episode highlights the best of the best – everyday items with the panache to place them on the shopping lists of the truly wealthy.  From ultra-slick Dutch sports cars to high-end luggage, each globetrotting episode reveals how these exquisite items are made, why they cost so much and what kind of people will shell out all that cash to buy them?

 Planet Luxury travels the world to the beautiful – and often exotic – destinations where opulent products aimed at the rich are sold.  Along the way, meet the interesting characters behind these expensive products and the high-end consumers who pay for them.  Seeking out only the most luxurious items, ranging from diamond-encrusted perfume bottles to sleek speedboats, Planet Luxury circles the globe to find the wares we all want with a price tag that is out of this world.