NEWS
October 3 and 5, 2024
-“Sound Tracks” will screen at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
September 27, 2024
-“Sound Tracks” will be screening at the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
August 3rd, 2024
-”Sound Tracks” played in the Flagstaff International Film Festival.
July 24th, 2024
-Director John Schaffer virtually directed an Irish film crew from Glasseye Productions for WAP next project about autistic artist, Stuart Neilson. The film is scheduled to be premiered at the First Place Global Symposium in October, 2024.
July, 17th 2024
-”Sound Tracks” played at the Prescott Film Festival in Prescott, Arizona on July 17th. The film received a great reception and the questions asked during the Q&A showed the audience was engaged.
April 16th, 2024
-”Sound Tracks” is featured in a National Institute for Mental Health Autism Awareness event in Washington, DC. Director, John Schaffer, Laura Nadine and Blair Bunting talk about their lives and the making of the film.
March 25th, 2024
- ”Tamarisk Removal along the Lower Gila River” is release by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnership with the AZ Wildfire Initiate.
January 25, 2024
-”Sound Tracks” returns for an encore screening at First Place’s “All Aboard: on track to drive change” event. Director, John Schaffer, joined Laura Nadine and Blair Bunting on a panel discussing their film.
October, 2023
-”Sound Tracks” plays to a capacity crowd at the First Place’s “All Aboard: on track to drive change” event at the Museum of the West in Scottsdale, AZ. Director, John Schaffer, Laura Nadine and Blair Bunting appear at the screening.
September 30th, 2023
-”Sound Tracks” premiered at the 2nd Annual Inspiration Porn Disability Film Festival in Flagstaff, Arizona.
September 10th, 2023
-”A Horse For the Soul” played in the Jerome Independent Film Festival in Jerome, Arizona.
June 2023
-”Evolution of Fire Management” is released by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium
February 2023
-”Goodnight, Midnight” is released by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium.
April 2022
-“Is Climate Change Making the Mosquitoes Worse in My Backyard” screened in the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival!
February 2022
- “Fire Regimes in the Sonoran Desert” is released by the Southwest Fires Science Consortium
March 2022
- “A Horse for the Soul” has been accepted into the Equus International Film Festival in Missoula, Montana
October 2021
- “A Horse For the Soul” plays in person at the Awareness Film Festival in LA!
- “Good Fire and Active Forest Management Protects Watersheds and Communities- The 2020 Medio Fire” is released!
- “Is Climate Change Making the Mosquitoes Worse in my Backyard” is released to the public!
September 2021:
-“A Horse For The Soul” was accepted into the Awareness Film Festival in LA!
August 2021
-Travelled outside Santa Fe to shoot a short doc about how the Medio Fire, a naturally caused wildfire, was managed to create the most desirable effects on the landscape.
May 2021
-Travelled down to the “Bootheel” of New Mexico to shoot a short documentary about a successful collaboration across many jurisdictions and agencies to develop a comprehensive fire management plan.
January 2021
-”Is Climate Change Making the Mosquitoes Worse in my Backyard” has been accepted into the Colorado Environmental Film Festival! It plays in February. It will also be screened at least twice on Colorado Public Television!
September 2020
- “A Horse for the Soul” is finished and submitted to film festivals!
August 2020
-Completed another fire science video called “Collaborative Tools and Science Developed through the Joint Fire Science Program: Southwest FireCLIME”
May 2020
-Rough cut finished for a short documentary about humans’ special connection to horses called, “A Horse for the Soul”. We were hired to direct and film one of the vignettes in the movie plus are doing the final editing.
April 2020
- The short Doc, “Is climate change making the mosquitoes worse in my backyard?” is finished!! Premiered it in a local elementary school. We will be submitting it to film festival and perhaps have an online release before then.
March 2020
-Completed a video showing a charter school using PBIS (positive behavior intervention system) in their schools. Unfortunately, due to the lock-down and quarantine, we will not be releasing this video until the next academic year.
January 2020
-Finished another video for the Sonoran University Center for Excellence, The Arizona Center for Disability Law, and the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council showing people using accommodations in the workplace. View here: https://www.azemploymentfirst.org/story/video-everyone-can-work
October 2019
-Finished a video for the Sonoran University Center for Excellence, The Arizona Center for Disability Law, and the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council highlighting people with disabilities working in their communities. View here: https://www.azemploymentfirst.org/story/video-employment-first-job-opportunities-all
August 2019
-Started production on a short doc about climate change and mosquitoes
April 2019
-All 4 Wild Asperagus Productions films will be shown at the Pacific and Western Disability Symposium on May 17 & 18, 2019 in Spokane, WA.
-The Shadow Listener: Friday, May 17 at 11:30am and Saturday May 18 at 11:30am
-My Dad Matthew: Friday May 17 at 4:00pm
-My Hiccups Are Gone: Friday May 17 at 4:00
-Vectors Of Autism: Saturday May 18 at 1:00
-Filmmaker Discussion at 1:45pm
November 2018
-My Dad Matthew played in the Woodpecker International Film festival in New Delhi, India!
October 2018
-My Dad Matthew played in the Laughlin International Film Festival in Laughlin, Nevada.
September 2018
-My Dad Matthew played in Over-the-Rhine Film Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio.
-My Dad Matthew played at Docuwest in Denver, Colorado!
June 2018
-My Dad Matthew played to a standing-room only crowd at the SF Doc Fest!
April 2018
-Festival #7! My Dad Matthew will be playing in Vigo, Spain in the Festival de Cine Inclusive De Vigo on May 3rd. The movie has been updated with Spanish subtitles. The official version of the movie now is open-captioned in English and Spanish!
-Festival #6! My Dad Matthew is an Official Selection in the Oregon Documentary Film festival. The movie screens on Saturday May 26th.
-Here's an article from Film Festival Circuit: https://filmfestivalcircuit.com/film/my-dad-matthew/
March 2018
-My Dad Matthew won the Director's Award from the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival! It's its 3rd award!
-Read a review of My Dad Matthew from Broadwayworld.com
https://www.broadwayworld.com/phoenix/article/BWW-Review-MY-DAD-MATTHEW-Looking-Beyond-Disability-20180301
-MY Dad Matthew won "Honorable Mention for Doc Under 10 minutes" from Picture This.....film festival in Calgary, Canada.
February 2018
-My Dad Matthew plays in the Sedona International Film Festival to a sold out crowd!
-My Dad Matthew plays in the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival
