Poster from John's first award-winning, feature film: One Heart - One Spirit: We Are All Connected. We Are One Human Family.
FILMMAKER/MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER
On July 16, 2017, John's first feature film, ONE HEART - ONE SPIRIT, won "BEST INDIGENOUS DOCUMENTARY" at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in Australia.
JOHN'S BIO
John Pritchard (born Jan. 13, 1961) helps clients with strategic multimedia design and specializes in video production for the web. He founded Pritchard Digital Arts in 2001, working with clients such as Sony, Williams College and The New York Times. John has extensive experience as an award-winning filmmaker, creative director, online learning/web designer and enhanced eBook producer. He has developed commercial software products and provided multimedia consulting to Fortune 500 and Advertising firms such as BBDO, Young & Rubicam, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time-Warner, McGraw-Hill, Canon, Simon & Schuster, Bear Stearns, Citibank, and American Express.In 1983, John graduated from St. Lawrence University as a Dean’s List student and Fine Arts major focusing on filmmaking. He was awarded a grant by the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for Fine Arts to film in mainland China right as China opened its doors to western tourism in 1983. From 1984 to 1986, John became a Macintosh computer expert while serving as an Assistant Director of the Upward Bound Program where he worked with Native American high school students on the Akwesasne Reservation in upstate NY.
In Nov. 1986, he moved to NYC where he worked as a computer instructor for consulting giant, Booz Allen. His multimedia career began 9 months later by founding one of the world's first interactive companies, Applied Imagination, to work with Apple and Microsoft on cutting edge educational projects. In 1993, he won McGraw-Hills' $100,000 New Media Design Contest while competing against corporations such as Time Warner, IBM, and Microsoft. John won by showcasing 2 educational software projects he developed with professors from NYU (Culture 1.0 - The History of Western Civilization) and Hunter college (Inuit-The Arctic Survival Game).
In 1997, John moved from NYC to Boston to work as a Creative/Art Director on three start-up companies with Internet giant, CMGi: InfoMation, Planet Direct, and the $100 million iCAST.com site for musicians and filmmakers. After the dot com crash in 2000, he moved out to Williamstown in the Berkshires of Western MA to set up his multimedia consulting company: Pritchard Digital Arts.
In 2010, John launched ETERNAL WAYS as a multimedia publishing label for educational and inspiring movies, books, music, and online training. In 2012, he produced Freddy's Guide, a great jazz improvisation training site featuring Berklee College of Music Professor Fred Lipsius of the legendary band, "Blood, Sweat & Tears."
In 2016, John founded ONE HEART MOVIES as a non-profit, 501c3 educational film organization. Learn more at OneHeartMovies.org.
In 2017, John's first feature film, ONE HEART - ONE SPIRIT, won "BEST INDIGENOUS DOCUMENTARY" at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in Australia.
In 2018, on November 19th (Discovery of Puerto Rico Day), John released his second ONE HEART MOVIES documentary: ¡OJALÁ!-PUERTO RICO REBUILDS. He filmed over 50 interviews on location in July 2018. See the official bilingual trailers at ojalamovie.com. The movie is available ON-DEMAND at vimeo.com/ondemand/ojalamovie.
In 2019, John produced his third ONE HEART MOVIES documentary, RESPECT FOR ALL, which features Drum Circle Facilitator and Educator, Otha Day. During the coronavirus, you can watch it for free at RespectAllMovie.com.
In 2020, on December 3rd, John released his fourth ONE HEART MOVIES documentary: WE ALL JUST NEED TO DRUM! The film is dedicated to the great drummer, Baba Olatunji, who deeply inspired the modern drum circle movement. WE ALL JUST NEED TO DRUM! is about encouraging the entire world to use drumming as a personal healing tool to increase joy, reduce stress, and deepen our connection with one another. The whole world needs to start drumming! Learn more about John's own drumming and music making at DrummerJohn.com.
To learn more about John's creative work, visit GetMoreCreative.com.
