Hammer and Nail Productions

05/07/2024

This weekend, Hammer and Nail turns 10!

It’s been an eventful decade, one in which we’ve been fortunate enough to make three films for ESPN (currently on our fourth), produce another one funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, shoot two more in Cuba, partner on four major exhibitions with HistoryMiami Museum, screen at AFI Docs, and win our share of accolades, including the Audience Award at the Miami Film Festival.

We’ve also gotten to work with some wonderful folks at SEC Network, PBS SoCal, the BBC, TV One, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, Heritage Architectural Associates, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Wolfsonian-FIU, Historic Hampton HOUSE, Center for Independent Documentary… really, too many to name. We are grateful to you all.

Here's to the next 10, and beyond.

19/05/2024

Can't reveal much about the project just yet, but we've been doing a little shooting in Texas...

18/02/2023

TOMORROW @ 1 p.m. at Coral Gables Art Cinema! Tickets at https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=778073~ebb48706-c1f0-47bb-b36e-9ac9f24dc60e&fbclid=IwAR2a5M2I5fWbgyRh_f7Sp6epSxs8bsguCFEaxseQl0nKDLK9X2tZRq81crs

13/07/2022

Many thanks to Nicholas DeRenzo for including our film, A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation, as one of "the nine best baseball documentaries to stream now." (Hint, hint...)

From Ken Burns’ baseball documentary to ESPN’s series on Derek Jeter, here’s an all-star lineup of baseball documentaries you don’t want to miss.

05/07/2022

Hammer and Nail Productions is celebrating 8 years! Many thanks to our friends, collaborators, and production partners for their support over that time. We've been privileged to bring some great stories to the screen. Stay tuned for more!

You can find us at www.hammerandnailprod.com

31/05/2022

Many thanks to Peter Wong at Broke-Ass Stuart for previewing our short film A Date, with History at this year's San Francisco DocFest. It's part of a terrific line-up titled "Worth a Thousand Words," which streams from June 1-12. To buy an online pass, go to: https://watch.eventive.org/.../626c14557fa86c007aab842a

Black beer brewers, the history of Throbbing Gristle, and a few films that will annoy the Chinese government are among the offerings at the 21st San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (hereafter “DocFest”). This year’s festival, which will run from June 1-12, 2022, boasts a mix of 36 features...

10/05/2022

For our friends in ATLANTA and SAN FRANCISCO (and, really, everywhere): Pleased to announce that the festival run for our short film A Date, with History continues with an in-person screening at Atlanta DocuFest on Sun., May 29, and virtual screenings through the San Francisco Doc Festival from June 1-12. For ticket info, click http://www.docufest.com/schedule.html or
https://watch.eventive.org/.../626c14557fa86c007aab842a, respectively.

15/11/2021

Excited to have our short doc A Date, with History selected for this year's Yale in Hollywood Fest. An opening feature, three shorts programs, and a closing feature will stream from Dec. 2 to Dec. 4, with live Q&A events. Watch it ALL with a $10 virtual film pass! To see the festival trailer, and purchase your pass, click below.

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07/11/2021

For those who missed the live screening of our new short doc A Date, with History, you have UNTIL 1 p.m. WED., Nov. 10, to stream it online (for only $4.99) — and cast your vote for us in the competition for the Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award! I hope you will. Link below.

Filmmaker Gaspar González will attend the screening in person and participate in a Q&A with the audience following the screening of A Date, with History.

05/11/2021

Great piece in Variety on the stellar line-up at this year's Miami GEMS — including a shout-out for our short doc A Date, with History. It screens TOMORROW, SAT., NOV. 6, at the Tower Theater, on the same program as One Night in Miami. We'd love to see you there. For tickets:
https://gems2021.eventive.org/schedule/615c54fa2586ce00703f9fe2?fbclid=IwAR1Py7hxnh9M8FLMm0LhcYMuhYIgAEZ6DJJRkq1scgqWzl_CB_ckGm4425Y

Miami film fans have an express pass to the best of the world’s film festivals at Miami Dade College’s eighth annual Miami Film Festival Gems, an offshoot of the Miami Film Festival. The Gems line-…

01/11/2021

For our friends in NEW YORK CITY: Our short doc A Date, with History will screen at 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge as part of the The TIDE Film Festival on Sat., Nov. 20. Excited to be partnering with this important festival, dedicated to celebrating the power of storytelling by filmmakers of color. Tickets to Film Program 2 (Who We Are, Where We've Been) are available below.

Promotional support provided by the NYC & Company Foundation, One Brooklyn Fund, Inc., and the Office of The Brooklyn Borough President.

24/10/2021

For our friends in the WASHINGTON, D.C. area: Our short doc A Date, with History will screen at the historic Old Greenbelt Theater as part of the 17th annual Utopia Film Festival on Sat., Nov. 20. The screening will feature three other films, including Unmarked, on the precarious state of African-American grave sites in the South. Advance tickets are only $7 and may be purchased at https://filmfreeway.com/Utopiafest-954719/tickets...

24/10/2021

Exciting news! Our short doc A Date, with History — funded by Oolite Arts — will have its premiere at Miami Film Festival's GEMS showcase on Sat., Nov. 6. We are especially honored to be sharing the bill with One Night in Miami. If you have not seen this terrific film, written by the supremely talented Kemp Powers, don't miss this opportunity! Info and tickets below.

Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award. Paired with the Feature Film ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Filmmaker Gaspar González will attend the screening in person and participate in a Q&A with the audience following the screening of A Date, with History. In December 1955, a brief news item in a national publicatio...

13/10/2021

Delighted to announce we have received TWO MEDALS from the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards for our ESPN doc The All-American Cuban Comet — a GOLD for Sports Documentary and a SILVER for Biography. It was an honor to work on this project. Many thanks to Carlos Alvarez (the "Cuban Comet" of the title) and all who contributed their talents. We done good.

05/07/2021

Happy 7th anniversary to Hammer and Nail Productions! In our short time, we’ve gone viral with the tale of Gay Talese's address book, cracked the ESPN line-up with films about legendary boxer Alexis Argüello and college football great Carlos Alvarez, unearthed the story of baseball’s desegregation, explored the secret life of American movies in Cuba, and visited one very special house. And there's more to come... Thank you all for your support!

For more on us, please visit www.hammerandnailprod.com

20/06/2021

Pleased to have been able to contribute to the Sunday Today Show's segment on Mudcat Grant. To learn more about Mudcat's remarkable life, watch our documentary A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation.

https://www.today.com/video/jim-mudcat-grant-pioneering-mlb-pitcher-dies-at-85-115140677520?fbclid=IwAR0BLiS1vq6IhU3YRuaDVIiHshanc986tAUSy6Ix3rvBMaUiaOuiWKHegRs

09/06/2021

Excited to announce that our ESPN documentary, The All-American Cuban Comet, is a finalist for TWO awards (for Best Biography and Best Sports Doc) from the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, honoring content from more than 50 countries.

25/05/2021

Pleased to announce that our ESPN doc, The All-American Cuban Comet — about Cuban immigrant-turned-University of Florida football great Carlos Alvarez — has received TWO Silver Telly Awards, one for Television General Documentary and another for Television General Sports. Special thanks and congratulations to all who contributed their talents to the film.