Imagine seeing words and sentences in a whole new way. Seattleite Cory Calhoun is the king of anagrams and his story recently aired on PBS.
Royal Galactic Media is a small production company in Ballard that co-produced a point-of-view piece on Calhoun. Royal Galactic teamed up with Team Juicebox to produce the eight-minute long piece called Ars Magna, which means “great art.” Calhoun has been hailed as coming up with the world’s greatest anagram using the first three lines of Hamlet. Ivan Agerton, one of the partners of Royal Galactic says that they learned of the Emmy nomination a few weeks ago and they’re thrilled. This is a big nomination, but it’s not only award for the small company. They recently won Best Director at an International 48-hour film competition, they won Best Documentary at the Toronto Documentary Film Festival and a couple years ago won Best Film worldwide at a 48-hour film competition and the film was featured at Cannes.
We caught up with them this past weekend as they were shooting stock motion for the Getty stock library in collaboration with Anderson Ross Photography. They’ve just started using the state-of-the art Red One camera of which there are only about 5,000 worldwide. “It’s an amazing piece of equipment,” Agerton says. Keep an eye out for more from this company who is often shooting around Ballard. We’ll be sure to pass along the Emmy results on September 21.
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