The Book Makers
2020
Directed & Edited by James Kennard
Cinematographer: Jamie Lejeune
Executive Producers: Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Senior Producer: David Kennard
Film Website
The Book Makers is a 1-hour documentary that pulls back the curtain on the people who are keeping books alive in the 21st century.
From the esoteric world of book artists to the digital libraries of the Internet Archive, the film spins a tale of the enduring vitality of the book.
A Year In Port
2016
Written and directed by David Kennard
Camera and editing: Jamie Lejeune and James Kennard
Senior Producers: David Kennard and Martine Saunier
Executive Producer: Todd Ruppert
Film Website
Time. In modern life, it has become the greatest luxury. Yet no Port exists without it. It is woven into the wine as fundamentally as sun and rain.
A Year in Port is the climax of a trilogy of films beginning with A Year in Burgundy (2013) and A Year in Champagne (2015). With renowned wine importer Martine Saunier as our guide once more, we journey into the magical world of Port with four award-winning winemakers: Symington Family Estates, Taylor Fladgate, Ramos Pinto and Niepoort. And we discover a new family of table wines bursting out from the home of Port, Portugal’s spectacular Douro Valley.
San Francisco Symphony Musicians
2015-2016
Directed and edited by James Kennard
Director of Photography: Jamie Lejeune
Senior Producer: David Kennard
SF Symphony Youtube
InCA Productions has partnered with the San Francisco Symphony to produce a series of short documentaries profiling symphony musicians. Each short explores the musician’s passions outside the walls of Davies hall, and how those experiences inform their skill and dedication to their art.
InCA has partnered with San Francisco’s unique Arion Press to create a new short film about the process of high-end, collector’s-item book production. The creation of its 100th book, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is the feature of the first short film (13 minutes).
A Year In Champagne
2014
Written and directed by David Kennard
Camera and editing: Jamie Lejeune and James Kennard
Senior Producers: David Kennard and Martine Saunier
Executive Producer: Todd Ruppert
Film Website
What’s the story behind the creation of the world’s most famous wine?
A YEAR IN CHAMPAGNE, the second of InCA’s trilogy of wine films takes you behind the scenes of a mysterious and fascinating process. You’ll meet champion champagne-masters, hard-working family teams, Bouchon the Dog (his name means Cork), and live through one of the toughest years, weatherwise, the region has ever known.
8 Ways to Wellbeing
New film project and website
Consultant and Director of Research:
Dr Elizabeth Kennard, PsyD, MFT
Senior Producer, Writer and Director: David Kennard
Project Website
This new cross-platform documentary project features the ground-breaking work of Dr. Roger Walsh, Professor of Psychiatry, Anthropology and Philosophy at U.C. Irvine.
Titled 8 WAYS TO WELLBEING, the project investigates how TLC’s (Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes) can achieve dramatic effects not only to our physical well-being, but to our mental health. The resulting 60-minute documentary will be nationally distributed on PBS.
Having already raised $100,000, we are now raising completion funds for this remarkable film
A Year in Burgundy
2013
Written and directed by David Kennard
Camera and editing: Jamie Lejeune and James Kennard
Senior Producers: David Kennard and Martine Saunier
Executive Producer: Todd Ruppert
Film Website
A YEAR IN BURGUNDY features a year in the life of six wine-making families of Burgundy, France. Shot on location in 2011 and early 2012, it is passionate, romantic and full of joy.
The film has received many great reviews internationally, and has won the coveted Audience Prize at the prestigious OENOVIDEO Film Festival, held in Carcassonne, France. The prize-giving was held on September 28 at the French Senate in Paris.