Category: News/Press

Lydia Dishman catches up with Hunter Weeks during the WALTER: Lessons from the World’s Oldest People theatrical tour for Fast Company’s Most Creative People.
One Filmmaker’s Life Lessons from Really, Really, Really Old People

An interview award-winning filmmaker Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell did with CNN shortly after releasing 10 MPH.

Screen: Indie Filmmakers Find Alternatives to the Multiplex

Hunter Weeks and his 10MPH partner Josh Caldwell were part of the pioneering indie film bunch who took distribution matters into their own hands.

ITVS Digital Initiative: Report from the Field
Case Study: Hunter Weeks and Josh Caldwell: 10 MPH

Independent Television Service, Inc. talks to the 10 MPH filmmakers about their distribution strategy.

Jeff Sabatini’s article With Halfway to Go, They’re Still Standing for The New York Times, reports on the 10 MPH film crew as they journey across America.

NPR’s Liane Hansen talks with Hunter Weeks about 10 MPH.

POV #docchat April 1, 2014

Hunter Weeks joined filmmakers Sebastian Diaz and Rodrigo Reyes for the April 1st edition of POV #docchat. This week’s discussion is Balancing Your Day Job And Your Documentary. The conversation was pretty full but the basics have been pulled together in Storify. You can navigate deeper into the Twitterverse once you get in there.
POV #DOCCHAT

Podcast: Interview with WALTER Director Hunter Weeks
by Andrew N. Shearer

This week’s Cinema File Podcast is an interview with director Hunter Weeks, discussing crowd funding, digital distribution, and how making a movie about the world’s oldest people changed him. Listen here.

The Old Man Bitter Girl Podcast. Episode 160: February 17, 2014
IN THIS EPISODE :: We sit down with Filmaker Hunter Weeks to talk about the film WALTER coming to the Victoria Texas Independent Film Festival. Listen here.

Walter to Kick off VTX Film Festival

An encounter with the world’s oldest man, Walter Breuning, prompts filmmaker, Hunter Weeks to travel around the world interviewing supercentenarians for life advice. His movie, “Walter” debuts opening night at the Victoria Film Fest on April 3. Full Story

Talking Where the Yellowstone Goes with director Hunter Weeks

The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed river in the lower 48 states, and travelling on the river is a beautiful experience. Hunter Weeks captured that beauty in his film Where the Yellowstone Goes, which shows at Brewvies on April 4 at 7:30 p.m.

The director will be there to answer any of your questions, and if you ask he’ll probably even give you an autograph. But first, he answered some of ours. Check out our Q&A with Weeks below. Full Story

Audio Case Study: Hunter Weeks & 10 MPH
Hunter fills us in on what he did to get the word about his film, the hurdles he faced and overcame, how he went about learning the process of how distribution really works and how he made and continues to make his self-distribution efforts a big success. Hunter even tells us how our very own Self-Distribution Starter Kit inspired him in the process. Full Story

Great Falls Tribune columnist Richard Ecke chatted with Hunter Weeks for an edition of Spray of the Falls, Ecke’s weekly update.

DailyCandy.com editor DeAnna Janes put together a list of Little Indies that Should and featured WALTER in films that she thinks should be backed on Kickstarter.

WALTER producer, Sarah E. Hall, sat down with her hometown newspaper to talk about the latest Hunter Weeks documentary.

An Interview with Filmmaker Hunter Weeks: The Mind Behind Where the Yellowstone Goes.
Tim Sprinkle chats with Hunter Weeks about the making of and release of the 2012 film, Where the Yellowstone Goes.

Check out Hunter Weeks guest post for Ted Hope’s blog, Truly Free Film: Hunter Weeks on Three Lessons from Three Films.

HuffPost Arts & Culture: Where the Yellowstone Goes

Outdoors lover and photographer, Ed Felker reviews Hunter Weeks’ latest film.

The Bozeman Fix reconnects with Ride the Divide director, Hunter Weeks to talk about his latest project, Montana-made film, Where the Yellowstone Goes.