YOUR EVERYDAY HEROES OF COSTA RICA, 25min., USA
Directed by Hernán Salcedo
Your Everyday Heroes traveled to Costa Rica and searched for inspirational everyday people who are changing the world. Jeremy, Tracey, Vernon and Che are clearly all examples of what it takes to be a Hero, and we're proud to share their stories with you.

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Get to know producer Albert H. Crane:

1. What motivated you to make this film?
One of our film crews traveled to Costa Rica to film Jeremy Levine at Wild Sun Rescue of an episode of season two. Once they arrived, they kept meeting amazing people who were involved with their own non-profits, so we decided to feature all of them in a longer documentary in an effort to draw attention to their causes.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you
To make this film? This production has many legs... Each hero ended up being featured in their own episode, then we decided to combine the 3 animal rescues and recut it from scratch, so to get this far has taken just about a year. That is why you see Che in the after credits, as he was the 4th hero we filmed in Costa Rica, but didn't hit the theme of this story.

3. How would you describe your film in two words!?
Heroic Journey

4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?
We faced a lot of challenges and obstacles our biggest one was moving quickly and timing of filming since we wanted to capture the release of the turtles and birds.

5. What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking
about your film in the feedback video?
Incredibly heartfelt and warming, we truly appreciate the time and effort that has gone into this project in all aspects.

6. When did you realize that you wanted to make films?
As I'm the Executive Producer of the film, it's always been a dream to be apart of a film, but now getting to see the whole process from idea to filming, to editing and watching it on film, to now winning a category has been an life long dream.

7. What film have you seen the most in your life? Besides Your Everyday Heroes of Costa Rica, which I've watched thousands of times, It would be Grease probably the most, as a kid I had the VHS of it, and thought being a T-Bird was awesome, but as I grew older, I leaned more to Pulp Fiction as probably the most watched. Thinking about that, I might just a super fan of Jon Travolta.

8. What other elements of the festival experience can we and other
festivals implement to satisfy you and help you further your filmmaking
career? We appreciate all of the support you've given us through this experience, and love the fact that we won Best Documentary, The group chat is definitely an added bonus. What I'm struggling with is the process after submission, what happens on the other side once we hit payment on the festival website.

9. You submitted to the festival via FilmFreeway. How has your
experiences been working on the festival platform site? It's pretty self explanatory in general, but would love to know the back end process, as you could recall, you called me Hernan for a bit, who is the Director of the piece, I had created the custom field of Executive Producer, but I'm sure your connection just defaults to the director.

10. What is your favorite meal? Anything my wife cooks, but if i had to pick something, would be cheese Raviolis with her families red sauce, it's so good.

11. What is next for you? A new film? We are launching a new site www.youreverydayheroes.world along with Season 3 of our Docu-Series on www.youreverydayheroes.com in the next few weeks, so hopefully you'll be seeing more from us shortly. We got tons of new stories, new locations, new film crews, I'm getting chills just thinking about it.