COURSES:

COMM 130  INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA PRODUCTION
COMM 635  DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION
COMM 639  SPORT AND SOCIAL CHANGE: DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION
COMM 645  THE DOCUMENTARY IDEA
COMM 547  HISTORY OF FILM II

                                                                              YouTube Trailer for GK Productions Prior to 2007
         
  MP4 18 MB DOCUMENTARIES PRIOR TO 2007 PROMO

FILMS ( DVDs ): (DVDs AVAILABLE ONLINE AT http://gkproductions.org)

    CHUCK DAVIS, DANCING THROUGH WEST AFRICA ( African dance, Senegal, the Gambia, celebrating African American culture )

  HUNGERS OF THE SOUL: BE GARDINER, STONE CARVER ( marble sculpture, Honduras, North Carolina sculptor )

DIGITAL VIDEOS ( DVDs ):

  BIBLE BELT JUSTICE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF HEAVEN ( 1950s racial integration, religion, & gay rights in Chapel Hill, NC )

  AL-JAZEERA, AN ARAB VOICE FOR FREEDOM OR DEMAGOGUERY? THE UNC TOUR ( freedom of the press & international journalism, featuring Samir Khader, Senior News Producer at Al-Jazeera, who also "stars" in "Control Room" another documentary about Al-Jazeera )

  SUZY WHALEY  Qualified for Life  ( women's golf, 2003 Greater Hartford Open, & women on the PGA Tour)

  BEYOND THE WALL  ( civil liberties under siege: freedom of speech, the 1960s North Carolina anti-Communist Speaker Ban Law & the anti-terrorist USA PATRIOT Act, William Friday and Students for a Democratic Society or SDS, Southern politics )

  LONDON UNDERGROUND EMT ( Sean Baran, an American intern working in London and trained as an EMT after the events of September 11, 2001, in New York, helps out during the London Underground bombings in July, 2005, recorded in high definition)

 PUSHING THE LIMITS: Norway's Ridderrenn (Paralympic gold medalists Anne-Mette Bredahl, a blind clinical psychologist from Denmark, and Cato Zahl Pedersen, an armless slalom skier and mountain climber from Norway, inspire other disabled people to push their own limits, while competing at the Ridderrenn in Beitostølen, Norway, in March, 2006, recorded in high definition )

 Pushing the Limits (Ski for Light USA and Norway's Ridderrenn) Trailer on YouTube

 PUSHING THE LIMITS: Ski for Light USA ( Paralympic gold medalist Jeff Pagels inspires other disabled people to push their limits at Ski For Light, a cross country ski program for blind, visually impaired, and mobility impaired participants near Winter Park, Colorado in January, 2006.)

CAROLINA FOR KIBERA: Talk Straight  (a soccer music video supporting kids in one of the worst slums in Africa via Carolina for Kibera's youth soccer and HIV/AIDS awareness program in Nairobi, Kenya, and featuring the song "Talk Straight" performed by a talented Chapel Hill band, The Old Ceremony, and clips from the film Bend it Like Beckham, the national champion UNC women's soccer team, and the kids in Kibera, 2007).

WINNING ISN'T EVERYTHING (a behind-the-scenes look at the University of North Carolina Women’s Soccer Team throughout the 2007 season. The documentary depicts the team striving and struggling to uphold ‘an NCAA dynasty.’  Along the way they discover that winning isn't everything.  Former Tar Heels Mia Hamm, Carla Overbeck, Wendy Gebauer Palladino, Cindy Parlow, and Heather O'Reilly provide a historical perspective, and along with 2007 players, they attribute the team’s enduring success to a set of core value developed over many years, 2008).

BOOKS:

  INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA PRODUCTION

  THE LIVE TELEVISION GENERATION OF HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTORS

  THE AMERICAN MOVIE INDUSTRY

  THE INTERNATIONAL MOVIE INDUSTRY