Mel Halbach Film Night
Sub-Consicous
Filmed, Produced & Edited by Mel Halbach
Animation by Pat McMurtry, Paul Winder
Additional Camera by Clayton Farr, Pat McMurtry, Paul Winder
Running Time: 57 min.
Sub-Consicous is filmmaker Mel Halbach's personal story of life onboard a nuclear missile submarine during the cold war. Smuggling dope onboard and smoking weed and hash, while at sea, maintained sanity amongst the crew, while under the cloud of launching an all out nuclear attack. Mel brings forward a story told like no other navy documentary, a story of 70 days underwater with a mission to destroy the world if ordered to do so.
What Lights Nate
Directed, Photographed and Edited by Mel Halbach
Co-produced by Patrick McMurty
This documentary was made possible by a generous grant form the University of Utah College of Humanities Documentary Studies Program
Running Time 30 Min.
What Lights Nate is an inspirational film that documents the personal journey of local fire artist Nate Smith. The film explores fire tornadoes, twirling 30-foot sparklers and BIG things that go kaboom! The film contains startling images of Nate's art and of the environment of which he creates it.
>>> Mel & Nate will be there after the films for Q&A!
Discover more at Mel's Official Website: www.worldstoriesfilm.com/
Mel is a director and producer of films that focus on topics of human interest. Over the past 25 years, much of this work has involved producing documentaries in developing countries.
His latest film, Sub-Conscious, is a personal story of his naval experience serving on a nuclear missile submarine during the cold war. Through interviews, stock footage and animation Mel brings forth tales from the underworld where 140 shipmates lived underwater, seventy days at a time. Their mission: to participate in the destruction of the world, if ordered to do so.
Mel’s travels to Vietnam between 1991-1997 culminated in his award-winning documentary The Long Haired Warriors. This documentary brought to light the lives Vietnamese women who were soldiers, activists and prisoners of war. The Long Haired Warriors was selected for screenings at over a dozen national and international film festivals and aired on selected PBS stations in the US.
What Lights Nate, documents the personal journey of artist Nate Smith and his fire vortex performances at the Burning Man Arts Festival in Nevada. Other film awards include Best Documentary, Experimental, for The Game at the Ann Arbor Film Festival; Best of Show for The Game a the 1991 Utah Film and Video Festival, and Honorable Mentions for his other short films at festivals in New York and Utah. Mel has twice been the recipient of the Mort Rosenfeld Award honoring Utah filmmakers of promise. Mel has produced and edited several Vietnam short films and was the Editor and Assistant Cinematographer for another feature length Vietnam documentary, Beyond Healing: Mission of Hope produced and directed by Carla Woodmansee.
He has also produced documentaries for non-government organizations in Cambodia, Vietnam, Kosovo, Slovakia, El Salvador and Mozambique. In 2004-05 Mel completed two commissioned films, Jack Gallivan, A Legacy, a documentary on which aired on PBS affiliate KUED in Salt Lake City, and The Life Story of Dorothy Dodd Jean Eppstein a Woman Air Service Pilot (WASP) during WWII.
Mel received a B.S. in Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin Madison and an M.F.A. in film from the University of Utah. Mel worked as an Associate Instructor in Film Studies and was Producer and Director of the Media Center at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah from 1994-2000. While there he produced over 35 videos and several international videos filmed in Taiwan, Vietnam, Amsterdam and Brussels. Mel has also led hands-on documentary filmmaking workshops in the U.S, Cambodia and Nepal and is currently the media producer for Aerial Arts of Utah.
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