Lane Wyrick
Director / Editor
Email: Lane@BillSackter.com

Lane Wyrick is a Film School graduate from the University of Iowa. During his college years, he worked extensively in both video and 16mm film production and was the first place winner in the Midwest Regional Competition of the Student Academy Awards for his experimental film “Culture Shell”. He was also awarded the Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship for his 40-minute 16mm comedy “Life is Eterminal”.

After graduating with high distinction in 1990, Wyrick spent four years in Los Angeles working as a production assistant and in various other capacities on feature film productions including “True Lies”, “Man's Best Friend”, “Dead Connection”, as well as on several television projects, music videos and commercials. In 1994, Wyrick worked as head of an Illinois-based Multimedia & Interactive Design Department.

Wyrick returned to his hometown of Iowa City in the fall of 1995 and formed Xap Interactive, Inc., a digitally-based video, film, and DVD production company to offer a venue for his creative and entrepreneurial aspirations. Through Xap Interactive, Wyrick has produced a wide variety of projects from event videos, DVD-based touchscreen information systems, surgical procedure videos, commercials, corporate videos and documentaries.

He is now pursiung new film/video production career opportunities while continuing to search for distribution avenues for the following three productions. To find out more, visit www.LaneWyrick.com:

 

The Nazi Drawings Documentary

In November 1999, Wyrick completed “The Nazi Drawings” documentary, which is the first major short documentary by Wyrick, who served as director, cinematographer, and editor on the project. The documentary explores the history and passion behind artist Mauricio Lasansky's powerful graphic series depicting the horrors of Nazi atrocities, and has a very strong anti-violence message.

The Nazi Drawings has won numerous awards including the Mid-America Emmy Award for Best Documentary, and Best Documentary & Best Director in the New York International Independent Film Festival, and was broadcast across the nation on PBS stations during Holocaust Remembrance Month in 2005 (to learn more, please visit www.NaziDrawings.com).

 

XapVision Nature Scenes

Another major production by Wyrick is XapVision Nature Scenes - an original DVD production featuring nearly three hours of beautifully filmed, relaxing and engaging scenes and sounds of nature.

Wyrick spent three years filming literally hundreds of scenes of nature using an expensive production camera to capture the beauty and detail of the natural world. He then compiled what was originally four separate DVDs into one "super-length" DVD which is now available for purchase online.

The XapVision Nature Scenes DVD was first designed for Hospitals, Hospice Organizations, & Nursing Homes, but it has now become a major hit with the general public as an enjoyable and unique DVD that provides a "window into nature" and can be enjoyed by people of all ages (more info at www.NatureScenes.com).

 

A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story

Wyrick recently completed his first feature length documentary, "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story".

After being approached by Academy Award Winning Screenwriter Barry Morrow in 2001 with the idea of creating a documentary about the real Bill Sackter, Wyrick spent many months researching, gathering photos, film & video footage, and discovering the heart of the story. After seven years, the production was completed in time for the premiere on June 7, 2008 at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City.

Wyrick has been hosting many screenings of "A Friend Indeed" and is launching a nationwide release of the documentary in 2010 with the innovative Screen It Yourself Package. This new distribution model was developed after a series of screenings and discussions with leaders about how to make this wonderful documentary also profitable for the organizations that host screenings.

This brand-new approach allows disability groups, movie theaters, non-profit organizations, churches, educational institutions and others across the country to host their own public screenings and share this incredible new documentary with their local communities bringing attention, enthusiasm and understanding (and profits) to their own organizations.

While new projects are in progress, Wyrick feels his mission right now is to make sure that everyone in the US and around the world have the opportunity to share in "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story", through an innovative new distribution model to Bring "A Friend Indeed" To Your City and through sales of the Deluxe Edition DVD.

Please help spread the word by telling everyone you know to come to this website and share the experience of this wonderful true story, to buy the Deluxe Edition DVD, and encourage local organizations to bring "A Friend Indeed" to your community so you can experience the documentary in a theatrical setting. You can also become a fan of "A Friend Indeed" on Facebook.

For more information on filmmaker Lane Wyrick please visit www.LaneWyrick.com

Peter Bloesch (pronounced “blesh”) grew up in a musical family, and was grounded in the study of piano, cello, and composition from an early age. 

After many years of focusing on concert music composition, Peter moved to Los Angeles to pursue film composing. At the University of Southern California, he studied graduate-level composition, orchestration, and conducting, when he participated in USC's prestigious “Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television” Advanced Studies Program.  Only around ten people per year are admitted from all over the world into this highly-specialized program, which is taught by the leading film and television composers in the industry. 

While in Los Angeles, Peter had the opportunity to study and work side-by-side with some of the top names in the film music business, including Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Bruce Broughton, Joe Harnell, Alexander Courage, and Henry Mancini.  In 1992 he won the “BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship” award, which allowed him the opportunity to work directly with television legend Mike Post on such television hits as “L.A. Law,” “Silk Stalkings,” and “Law & Order.”    

During his years in Hollywood, Peter kept busy with a wide range of film music projects, including scoring independent films, coordinating and conducting recording sessions, and providing orchestration for a variety of film scores, including the movie “Dark Horizon,” which was commissioned by Sony to promote their HDTV technology.

Since his return to Iowa, Peter has remained very active in composing and arranging.  He was thrilled to score Lane Wyrick's film "A Friend Indeed - The Bill Sackter Story," and found it to be an exciting and rewarding experience — not only did it provide him with an opportunity to create an emotionally powerful film score that is inspiring and uplifting, it also allowed him to make a contribution toward the important legacy of Bill Sackter, a person who continues to inspire the best in all of us.

In addition to scoring films, Peter is also active in writing concert music and church music, as well as creating large-scale Holiday Pops arrangements for chorus and full orchestra.  He was commissioned by The Cedar Rapids Symphony to write a number of arrangements for their highly-acclaimed Holiday Pops concert series, and these pieces are now being actively marketed to major orchestras across the country. 

Peter regularly receives commissions to compose concert music for various groups, such as Red Cedar Chamber Music, a critically-acclaimed chamber ensemble known for championing new music.  Additionally, he has written a variety of music for the church setting, including a number of congregational hymn arrangements that feature orchestral accompaniments.

You can learn more about Peter's music at www.PeterBloesch.com.