Google: Geography!

An intro movie for a geography contest.

Written & Directed by: Josh Raskin
Made by: Josh Raskin & Alex Kurina
With help from: Amina Moon, Rose Broadbent, Michael McDougall & Justin Broadbent

Interviewees: Kim Bellware, Caitlin Esch, Pardis Dabashi, Jonathan Kirby, Edie & Melanie
Interviewers: Jonathan Kirby, Richard Parks, Steve D’Alimonte & Finlay Braithwaite

Music by: Menalon
Sound by: Finlay Braithwaite

Client: Google Inc/National Geographic
Product: Google Maps/National Geographic Bee
Client Executives: Alice Lin & Dave Kim

Produced by: Studio G @ Google
Studio G Producer: Christine Allen
Creative Consultation: Jonathan Zames & Ray Zablocki

Interviews conducted in Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley & Toronto

Special thanks: Ice Boy, Andres Landau, Ryan V. Hays, Arv Slabosevicius, Steve Wilson, Darlene Huynh, James Braithwaite, Howard Slapcoff, Tristin Kaufman, Lauren Pirie, everyone who let us interview them & Earth