‘ … we’re building a boat but we aren’t sure how to build it. Or even where it’s to sail. We just know for certain that we have to start building’.
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ABOUT THE FILM-MAKER, NIC ASKEW
Nic creates the films, words, music & images for the Soul Biographies Project. His short films capture people & life through a unique lens, giving us a direct experience of human spirit. From the famous to the entirely unknown, Nic’s film subject’s have no tangible pattern save the common spark of ‘life & curiosity’ which play out in front of his camera.At 44, Nic is an Englishman living in Minneapolis, USA with one wife, and - by Christmas 2008 and if you count the dog, which he does - with four children under 5½. The content on soulbiographies.com will always be a more accurate reflection of Nic than a catalogue of the events of his life could ever be
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER, EDWIN ESCOBAR
this piece has been written by Nic without the prior knowledge of Edwin.
The standard catalogue of Edwin’s life to date is impressive by any standard. As an entrepreneur in its truest sense, he’s built a formidable collection of businesses in a spirit that manages to re-distribute wealth, both in its obvious sense, and in its less obvious but perhaps truer sense.And as a curious soul, searching for meaning in his early 30’s he ignored the obvious course taken by so many in his position, and left his businesses in favour of the Deanship of a University.
More recently, as an emerging leader on the world stage, he has a subtly influential voice on how the world could be. I imagine that voice will only become wiser.
But that all has little to do with our partnership. Such a partnership could never be based on what has been done. But it is about the spirit in which it has been done. And, because we both have the desire to see with clarity. And to explore the unknown. To explore life.
Edwin has three children and a large collection of dogs. And motorbikes. And he’s deeply in love with his country. Guatemala. And with life.
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‘ … we have set out to provoke the world. to provoke our innate ability to see the human spirit. To see each other.’
