Press
Chasing Discovery was filmed, produced and edited by Mark Gould and Bill O’Connor for Straight to DVD Productions in the winter of 2007 and spring of 2008.
Mark and Bill traveled the country in order to speak with some of the top researchers in cryptozoology including Loren Coleman (regarded as the worlds leading authority on general cryptozoology) and Jeff Meldrum (the world’s preeminent authority on Sasquatch).
After speaking at the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, filmmaker Mark Gould poses with Champ, the mascot for the Vermont Lake Monsters single-A baseball team.
The filmmakers also sought out some of cryptozoology’s harshest critics to get a true sense for the criticism and adversity that cryptozoologists must face while conducting their inquiries.
Chasing Discovery attempts to bring the viewer into the rarely seen universe of cryptozoology and provide the audience with insight into an unorthodox science that could provide us with some of the most interesting zoological discoveries since Darwin’s “On The Origin of the Species”.
Chasing Discovery has been screened at local events such as “Champ Week” at the ECHO Lake Acquarium and Science Center.
Mark Gould currently lives in Vermont where he works at The Burlington Free Press as a multimedia reporter. Bill O’Connor lives in Massachusetts where he works as a document specialist at the biotechnology firm Genzyme Corporation.
More information about the film and its producers/distributors can be obtained by visiting the contact page.
In the news
• 10/25/08: Cryptomundo: “Chasing Discovery: The struggles of cryptozoologists”
• 8/10/08: ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center: “Cryptozoology
Movie Maker”
• 4/24/08: “Cryptomundo: Chasing Discovery has its world premiere at St. Michael’s College today“
