GLOAMING PICTURES is an independent production
company that specializes in documentary film and television, formed by brothers Jim Isler and Tom Isler. |
We founded Gloaming Pictures in 2000. Our first feature-length documentary film, FESTIVAL, about the 2004 Maine State Drama Festival, an annual competition for high school theater companies, premiered at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine, in 2005.
TOM ISLER and JIM ISLER with their grandmother while shooting
“Once More To The Cabin”
in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. |
Our next film, “CRITICAL HOURS,” a pilot for a television series about unusual and inspiring educational programs for kids, premiered at the New York Television Festival in 2006 and was one of three finalists for the MSN Artistic Achievement Award. The pilot was nominated for a 2007 Best Award by the KIDS FIRST! Film and Video Festival in the category of Best Documentary, ages eight to 12.
Our documentary film, ONCE MORE TO THE CABIN, premiered at the Maine International Film Festival in July 2009 and was broadcast on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network in 2010.
Our latest documentary film, TWO'S A CROWD, premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto in May 2011 and has earned several honors, including the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the 2011 Hamptons International Film Festival.
We also have created behind-the-scenes featurettes about various artistic productions, including a film written by John Buffalo Mailer and a ground-breaking web sitcom.
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JIM ISLER got his start in the film business at Good Machine and now is an editor of film and television in New York City. He has edited programs for PBS, A&E, VH1, Discovery, and National Geographic, among other networks, and shot second camera for PBS's “EGG: The Arts Show” during his time at Thirteen/WNET. Jim has edited two feature documentaries, and, in 2006, he edited a New York Emmy Award-winning Internet sitcom, Floaters. In 2008, he was nominated for the Best Editing Award at the Wildscreen Festival, a wildlife and environmental film festival in the U.K., for his work on a two-hour film for PBS's NATURE series. Jim earned a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Wesleyan University, where his senior thesis film won the Ross Prize for best undergraduate film.
 TOM ISLER earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Yale University, where he studied documentary filmmaking with D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus and for his work in film and journalism was awarded the George A. Schrader, Jr. Prize for excellence in the humanities. In 2012, Tom co-directed a short documentary, Pay Up!, about criminal justice debt in Philadelphia, which earned the Benjamin R. Jones Award for outstanding contribution to the public interest from the Univ. of Pa. Law School. Tom's writing about the arts has appeared in a number of publications, including The Boston Phoenix, The Southampton Press, the International Documentary Association's Documentary magazine, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He has worked as a freelance cameraman for CBS and NBC News.
 
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