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Eric Daniel Metzgar

Eric Daniel Metzgar owns and operates Merigold Moving Pictures, LLC, a film production company based in Brooklyn, New York. Eric directed, produced, photographed and edited The Chances of the World Changing, his first documentary feature film. Currently, Eric is working on two new documentaries.

He also works as a cinematographer and writer. www.merigoldmovingpictures.com.

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Eric Daniel Metzgar owns and operates Merigold Moving Pictures, LLC, a film production company based in Brooklyn, New York; he directed, produced, photographed and edited The Chances of the World Changing, his first documentary feature film. He is currently working on two new documentaries and also works as a cinematographer and writer; website www.merigoldmovingpictures.com.

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"Eric Daniel Metzgar." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/eric-daniel-metzgar.

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