The Production Team

Carter (center) with (l to r) Clark, Campbell, Youmans

Martin Clark has been producing and directing video and film projects since 1984. His production work began when he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing a degree in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures. In addition to his classes he worked on the student staff of North Carolina Public Television and served with Student Television for UNC-CH as a producer/director and administrator. While at UNC Martin was recognized for this work with Student Television by being inducted into three campus honorary societies, the Orders of the Golden Fleece, Old Well, and Grail.

In the years since college, Martin has assembled a number of award-winning works spanning the educational, nonprofit, corporate, and independent arenas. During 1995–98 Martin produced and directed several video products for the Ford Foundation-funded Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI). The RCCI’s goals are to foster sustainable economic growth, entrepreneurship, and improved access to education in distressed rural communities. The centerpiece of Martin’s work with the RCCI is a five-hour series of eight educational/documentary programs presenting the initiative’s goals and success stories.

Martin also produced and edited the 1994 documentary film Dr. Frank: The Life and Times of Frank Porter Graham. Narrated by Charles Kuralt and broadcast on North Carolina Public Television, the film garnered significant critical recognition including an Emmy award, a CINE Golden Eagle award, and a screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

You can contact Martin at mmclark@mindspring.com.

Mickey Youmans is President of the Savannah Production Group, Inc. (SPG), a full service film and television production company formed in 1989. Over the years SPG’s broadcast clients have included the three major networks, PBS, CNN, FOX, and foreign outlets such as the BBC, TV Asahi, and NHK. SPG’s corporate and commercial clients have included Hughes Aerospace Corporation, Brasseler Corporation, John Hancock Insurance, Palmer Johnson Yachts, Family Circle Magazine, Rayonier, Inc., and the Fort Howard Corporation.

Working variously as producer, director, videographer/cinematographer, and editor, Mickey has contributed to segments for 60 Minutes, 20/20, Code 3, America’s Most Wanted, True Stories of the Highway Patrol, and Entertainment Tonight. He has also created dozens of corporate promotional and instructional pieces.

Mickey’s documentary work includes producing and directing the television series Challenge of Flight, a 21-part aviation series currently distributed to domestic and European home markets and DirecTV pay-for-view. Some of the other titles he has produced and directed include: America’s Atomic Bomb Tests (series); Nuclear Soldiers; From D-Day to Berlin (series); and Mach One—the official 50th anniversary story of breaking the sound barrier featuring Chuck Yeager and originally broadcast on A&E. Mickey’s films are distributed in more than 30 countries through AVION PARK, a marketing and distribution company of which he is a partner.

In addition to the Carter documentary, Mickey’s current projects include Farmer’s Almanac TV where he is bringing to life for broadcast/cable and home video the facts and wisdom of American almanacs.

Mickey lives with his wife Annette and dog Ruby near Savannah, Georgia, where he was born and raised.

You can contact Mickey at savannahproductiongroup@att.net.

Dr. Walter E. Campbell is President and CEO of Memory Lane Productions, Inc. of Durham, North Carolina. He holds a PhD in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he specializes in the history of science, business, and race relations in the American South.

Walt was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, and has lived in North Carolina since 1976. He is an independent scholar and filmmaker and has been creating print and video works for more than two decades. In 1996 he was awarded the Clarendon Cup for his book Across Fortune's Tracks: A Biography of William Rand Kenan, Jr. (UNC Press).

Walt lives in Durham with his wife and son.

You can contact Walt at cmpbll@acpub.duke.edu.