Directed By Carl Franklin, David Nutter, Jeremy Podeswa, Tony To, Tim Van Patten And Graham Yost; Written By Laurence Andries, Michelle Ashford, Bruce C. McKenna, George Pelecanos, Robert Schenkkan And Graham Yost.

“It is not a history, and it is not my story alone. I have attempted, rather, to be the spokesman for my comrades, who were swept with me into the abyss of war.”  Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed

The epic ten-part miniseries event THE PACIFIC debuts with Part One on SUNDAY, MARCH 14 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), followed by other parts debuting on consecutive Sundays at the same time through May 16.

The HBO Miniseries presentation of a Playtone and DreamWorks production is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the producing team behind the Emmy(R) Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning 2001 HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers.” Hanks and Goetzman also executive produced the HBO miniseries “John Adams,” which won a record-breaking 13 Emmys(R) in 2008.

We are currently staying in a house on the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria. The house is situated at the lake and the view is breathtaking, today we are enjoying a full day of! Tuesday we will depart for Nairobi, Kenia. I will keep you posted and post some more video if bandwidth allows it.

During the second leg of our flight from Arusha to Bukoba, Tanzania I was sitting in the cockpit of a very small airplane. While flying over Lake Victoria to the shore I was astounded by this beautiful view.

We landed on the Arusha airstrip on wednesday, at 9:00 pm local time, a hot and damp night. The next day we drove to Same district to shoot the first episode of our documentary series in Africa. The subject was water irrigation and financial management. Same has a city bond with the Dutch city Tilburg, they have been helping to develop the region for the last 23 years.

It is an absolute pleasure to shoot in this country, good light, and there is always something going on. Today I have reviewed the first footage and took a small break in Arusha to prepare for our next episode, I will keep you posted!

I have recently bought a set of IDX endura elite batteries and a Zacuto plate for the v-mount. I added a weight of 1,3 kg in de back and all was balanced. So I basically had a proper handheld camera in terms of weight and balance. This helps a lot in weight displacement and on one of these batteries I can shoot two full days!

The current shape of the weight is not ideal, but it does fit a Zacuto quick release. I have asked a local steel worker to make a sandwich type of weight.

Here is a close up: