Wild Planet Films is the brainchild of filmmaker Dave Eichhorn and is the sister company of Wild Planet Design, a web-and-graphic design firm. Essentially a full service production company, Wild Planet Films can handle a huge assortment of film projects from movie trailers to commercials to music video. Script to screen, Wild Planet Films can take your dream and turn it into a professional, polished production.

 

notes on dave eichhorn

Dave has been producing, directing and editing films since he was 20 years old. He has earned 3 Primetime Emmy awards for his work as a supervising sound editor and has written, produced and directed corporate videos, commercials, movie trailers and documentaries. In 2004, he received a Gold Record for his post-production work on a top-selling CD comedy soundtrack album.

Dave is currently editing an untitled documentary about Chicago musician Luiz Ewerling. He is also preparing a documentary entitled "100 Questions": an enlightening and entertaining treatise on growing old in America, and he has a dramatic-comedy screenplay in the works that he hopes to direct in the not-too-distant future.

"Blocking shots, extracting performances, editing, choosing and cutting music -- all of this is what I was born to do. I realize that I was given a tremendous gift: the ability to think and talk to people through the language of film. You juxtapose imagery, sound and pacing in the perfect combination to evoke an emotion. My forte has always been editing. When I was 9 years old I would spend six hours editing a slide show together to present to my family. I remember knowing that if I arranged the slides in the right order, I could get my parents to cry. That was a real kick for me. When I was a little older, I cut 8mm movies for fun and then I took all the film courses that my college offered. When I'm editing and the inspiration is flowing, time just stops...and any pain, physical or emotional, just sort of fades away. That's my nirvana. Working on a film, I am the happiest that I can be".

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