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Created & written by, Thomas Ellingwood Fortin, New Albion Pacific Media I've had a number of people ask me what ever happened to our production of GALVEZ! Here is a partial explanation of it that I posted on the Bernardo de Galvez page over a year ago. The film trailer we produced originally, is linked up below, Speaking of GALVEZ!, I see now that many who were going to help us, went silent on me, my director of photography even vanishing with most of the footage for this and another documentary [1513]. Here is what is happening, it’s amazing, but when I shared the approach and history I am going to use to present Galvez and Spain in the American Revolution, a lot of potential backers abandoned us, anyway, I don't do fantasy history,... A lot of my production team were “spoken to” and ran off. Due to the fact that most of those who assisted me and took part in the making of this trailer abandoned the project, even attacking me personally after being friends it seemed for so long, was discouraging. But this has made it impossible to use the trailer to promote the film, so now its just a demo tape sort of to say of my own creative abilities. So, just to let you all know, THIS IS A DEAD PROJECT, muerte, slain by mysterious forces beyond my control..... I was warned by a Hispanic scholar back when I first started development on this, that powerful forces in high places would stop me if they could...and they did! Now I am afraid that the real history is not going to be told. And that is too bad because it is a vital part of our revolutionary war story! Fantasy versions of the story, which will only serve to discredit it, abound. Also, I should mention that its partially my fault for being so open and trusting with people whose true nature I did not really know. “The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of US independence.” ~Thomas E. Chavez ..and so it will remain,...for now....

New working title, 1 5 1 3, REFLECTIONS ON JUAN PONCE DE LEON! Obscured for too long in the fog of legend and shadows of myth, join us on a sensually spectacular voyage of discovery aboard Spain’s tall ship, the Nao Victoria, as the voices of history tell us the story of Juan Ponce de Leon, all set to Europe’s finest 16th century musical performance by Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI, plus stunning cinematography, historic locations, and artwork! [This trailer film reflects the original working title back in 2012, with a minimum amount of footage and the beautiful music of Vangelis off 1492, apologies to Tyron Powers, as of now we have new music and lots of footage, so stay tuned for the new trailer coming soon!] Special notice, production on this project has come to an end, like the documentary GALVEZ! We were attacked and undermined out of the shadows, and even my director of photography took the footage [I have a little of it on a forgotten memory card] and disappeared!

I was a Co-Producer on this project for the state of South Carolina Economic Development and the State Film Commission. A good part of the historic resources you see on camera were coordinated by myself and my company!

This was a scene I watched while at my desk here in Florida.

A view from our condo parking deck of the full fury of a Florida hurricane.

Local family musicians perform downtown

Beautiful day on the beach, location for an upcoming documentary...

A typical SW Florida Gulf Coast thunderstorm!