Sovereign Pictures' Projects

Don Downey is a filmmaker who interprets identity through storytelling. Downey has directed films on subjects ranging from investor relations to healthcare, to free trade, to the effects of global warming and the impact of the web on telecommunications. His television assignments include projects on Yellowstone National Park, the archeological sites of the southwest, the Vietnam War, the Hopi Indians and The Supreme Court. The company’s extensive experience generates projects with a clear and personal voice yet on a responsive production schedule.

Project spotlight
		Time in the Barrel: Death & Life in Vietman is a film shot on the former battlegrounds of Vietnam with combat veterans who look with a clear eye at the shattering experience of war. More >>
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		A Song of Water enters into the universe of the Hopi through a sharply fragmented tale about water loss to a rapacious coal mining company. The film is a rarely seen vision of how the Hopi engage the outer world and the consequences of that interaction. The documentary was filmed entirely within the Hopi reservation lands. View QT movie trailer
		Minds to Match Our Mountains transcends the challenging world of higher education in Colorado through intimate portraits of students who are personally defining their educational environment and achieving at the highest levels. View QT movie trailer
		A Decision For West Point is a film that spends time in the ranks of the West Point cadet and learns what they learn and reveals the mystery of their uncommon path. As General Douglas MacArthur said in his famous final speech, in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. View QT movie trailer
		A Life Out West blends Kodak-colored images of Colorado in the 1950’s with the idyllic past of a ranching family whose most enduring legacy is their sturdy remembrance of what is, for most of us, a mythic past. View QT movie trailer
		In the Hand of God opens the unrevealed world of the Vatican. Filmed in Rome it links Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, the “poorest of the poor,” the followers of the faith and the ancient rituals of Catholicism. View QT movie trailer