{"id":7654,"date":"2014-07-24T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:46:16","slug":"wieses-onward-free-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7654","title":{"rendered":"Wiese\u2019s \u201cOnward\u201d free to read!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wish to pass some of those remaining summer hours with additional literature in the C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> realm? Urbana native Michael Wiese<\/strong>, an award-wining filmmaker, publisher, and speaker whose company has issued books advising on all aspects of movie development, production, marketing, and distribution for nearly 40 years, recently made available an ePDF of his memoir, Onward & Upward: Reflections of a Joyful Life<\/span><\/strong>, to help celebrate his birthday! Go here and subscribe<\/span><\/a> to the Michael Wiese Productions<\/strong> general mailing list; your immediate reward will be a link from which to download the book for free. Specifics about ordering the print edition can be found here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

First published in June 2013 by MWP, Onward & Upward<\/span> is the author\u2019s free-form musing about his life\u2019s journeys and accomplishments, starting with his upbringing in Urbana-Champaign<\/strong> and eventual discovery of the arts, filmmaking in particular. \u201cThe images move, and breathe, and are more engaging than stills \u2026 [a]ll summer, whenever I can, I work at night on my own little films,\u201d writes Wiese on p.30 about his increasing appreciation of the cinema as a teenager. \u201cThat same summer I discover foreign films at The Art Theater<\/strong> [at a time when they played] mostly \u2018new wave\u2019 French and Italian films. They open me up to the sights and sounds of other cultures, and different lifestyles that I\u2019d not imagined. They are shot in a more intimate and realistic way than Hollywood<\/strong> films and are about life, not fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n

After spending his early adult years traveling the globe, Wiese worked in the nascent cable television and home video industries as producer and promoter. Successes included his efforts with The Movie Channel<\/strong> and Vestron Video<\/strong> as well as independent films like DOLPHINS<\/strong> a.k.a. DOLPHIN ADVENTURES<\/strong>, produced with conservationist Hardy Jones<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and the famous STAR WARS<\/strong> spoof HARDWARE WARS<\/strong>, directed by Ernie Fosselius<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. In recent years, MWP vice president Ken Lee<\/strong> has overseen hundreds of titles written by dozens of authors with entertainment industry credentials, while Wiese has stepped back to shepherd personal projects such as Onward & Upward<\/span> and documentaries about alternative health and spirituality.<\/span><\/a> The latter include THE SACRED SITES OF THE DALAI LAMAS, TALKING WITH SPIRITS, LIVING WITH SPIRITS<\/strong>, and THE SHAMAN & AYAHUASCA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Wiese lives with his wife Geraldine<\/strong> and daughter Julia<\/strong> in Cornwall, England<\/strong>. The offices of Michael Wiese Productions<\/span><\/a> reside in Studio City, California<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n


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Today, PDF stands for “pretty darn fascinating” as we point you towards a free ePDF promotion of film book publisher Michael Wiese’s unorthodox autobiography, “Onward & Upward.” You can read, dearest readers, can you not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,53,602,274,31],"tags":[1296,1295,1294,1293,735,788,1292,837],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-educationclasses","category-giveaways-contests","category-print-matter-du-c-u","category-the-old-school","tag-divine-arts-media","tag-dolphins","tag-hardware-wars","tag-ken-lee","tag-michael-wiese","tag-michael-wiese-productions","tag-onward-upward","tag-the-art-theater-co-op"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}