Rare Edition
While working on a master’s degree at the University of Arkansas, I was one of three co-producers who worked together to create a half-hour documentary, Rare Edition, about the Dickson Street Rare and Used Book Store in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The film premiered at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in 2002, and copies of it are held by the Margaret Henrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as the University of Arkansas Libraries. I’ve also contributed minor help to two documentaries by professor Larry Foley, chair of the School of Journalism and Strategic Media, advising on historical notes for his documentary Up Among the Hills, a history of Fayetteville, and serving as a contributing field producer for his Where the Buffalo Flows, a documentary about the Buffalo National River.
Celebrating 70 Years of the Fulbright Program
As part of my job in the Office of University Relations for the University of Arkansas, we were asked to produce a short film to be shown at the kickoff of a celebration in Washington, D.C., for the 70th anniversary of the Fulbright Exchange Program in 2016. It was a quick turn-around, perhaps four weeks to get the video researched, written, shot and edited.
I wrote the script for the film, identified faculty who could narrate and voice the film, and then worked with Catherine Wallack in the university’s Special Collections Division to provide historic imagery for use where needed.
Our office’s film crew took it from there, creating this video describing a little history of the program’s namesake, J. William Fulbright, an alumnus and former president of the university, and the events leading to his introduction of legislation creating the international exchange program that continues to bear his name.
Word, Image and Sound 