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We are looking forward to a lot of
documentary work this year. In April we
are planning to return to Auschwitz in
Poland with a survivor of that horrific
concentration camp. In June we will be
in Normandy for the anniversary of D-Day
and the dedication of a new statue
honoring leadership. On that same trip
we will also be filming for another WWII
documentary about 2 American medics who
set up camp in a small village church
and treated both American and German
wounded. Throughout the year we will be
filming Waterfire events for an up
coming television special and DVD. We
are also working to expand the broadcast
reach of "Covered Bridges of New
England".
RIPBS aired our covered bridge
documentary in the first quarter of
2011. In May, we followed a WWII vet
back to Europe and followed his
footsteps through France, Belgium,
Holland and all the way to Berlin,
Germany. We finished the year with the
completion and premiere of another WWII
doc based on a museum collection in
Natick, MA.
In 2010 Ocean State Video was
honored with 2 more Emmy Awards for our
work on "Navy Heroes of Normandy" and
"When the Red's Rules the Roost".
"Covered Bridges of New England" saw
it's broadcast premiere in December on
WGBH in Boston and WGBY in Springfield.
In 2009, Ocean State Video was nominated for 3 Emmy
Awards. Two for our documentary
"Teens on a Mission" and a
third for "The Impact of Your
Choice". We continue
to shoot most of our projects in High
Definition, including a documentary
recently released on breast
cancer, a
documentary about a camp for children
with cancer and another about Lighthouse
Keeper Ida Lewis. We are also in the
early stages of our 3rd documentary
project for Johnson & Wales University. DVD's
of "When
the REDS
Ruled the Roost" are now
available from rocjo.com. Have you seen the trailer for the Warwick
Musical Theatre? We are working on
that project too. "Navy Heroes of
Normandy", our most recent D-Day
doc will start playing in France on June
6th, the 65th anniversary of the
invasion.
2008 was a success. We acquired a Panasonic HPX500 P2HD camera
enabling us to shoot more High
Definition today and into the future. We
completed a documentary
following local students on a mission to
Jamaica and another documentary that
followed the creation of a
memorial dedicated to the Navy service
on D-Day. This premiered in New
Orleans at the World War II museum on
November 14th and is now available on
DVD.
Ocean State Video's "D-Day + 62
Years" has been honored with 2 Emmy
Awards. The documentary received an Emmy
for "Best Program Photography"
and producer/writer Tim Gray received an
Emmy for writing. These men sit down and tell their
stories, some for the first time ever
and followed a group of veterans
back to beaches in Normandy.
In 2007 our documentary "D-Day: The
Price of Freedom" aired
nationally on PBS. HD Production is
underway on a
documentary on the history of Diners.
We completed production
on a second documentary about Johnson
& Wales University and an educational documentary
about DWI titled: "The Impact of
Your Choice". Both are slated to
air soon on PBS. We are shooting a moving story of faith and
adversity at a Church in Jamaica
Plain.
This project is being produced in High
Definition.
For the third year in a row, we have
provided a development video for Our
Lady Of Fatima Hospital. Other 2007
projects
include: a recruitment video for St.
Michael's College Fire & Rescue,
development videos for a new Temple in
East Greenwich and A Wish Come True.
The Emmy nominated documentary
"Rhode Island's Historic
Lighthouses" continues to air on
RIPBS. A world premiere was held at Jane
Pickens Theater in Newport in July of
2005. The 47 minute film plus bonus
material is now available on DVD from
the Rose
Island Lighthouse Foundation, the Beavertail
Lighthouse Museum in Jamestown, Ida
Lewis Yacht Club in Newport, the visitor
center at Slator Mill in Pawtucket, from
RIPBS
and other Lighthouse groups in the area.
Anyone interested in obtaining copies
for retail can contact Jim@oceanstatetvideo.com
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In January 2003 we traveled to
Morocco and Egypt to shoot 2
documentaries for PBS. The
programs were produced by The
Visionaries and feature the work of the
Near East Foundation. The 2 - 30 minute
documentaries aired on PBS stations
around the country. The trip included a
visit to the pyramids in Giza, climbing
to the top of one of the oldest mosques
in Cairo, a day in Marrakech, work in
the beautiful but harsh Atlas mountains
of Morocco and meeting many interesting
people from some very different cultures.
Ocean State Video recently completed
projects for The Greater Providence
Chamber, Cowan Plastics, Ocean Tides,
Lifespan, Women & Infants' Hospital,
Kent Hospital, The Tomorrow Fund, The
Prout School, The Rhode
Island Philharmonic, Olneyville
Community Schools, and a Six SIGMA
video for Textron. We
recently produced a new image video for
Memorial Hospital, two educational shows
for the Annenberg Institute, a Best
Practices video for TFC Textron, a
development video for The American Heart
Association and a product demonstration
tape for the American International
Tool, Paint Shaver. Ocean State
Video also completed 4 Community Service
Learning videos for Johnson & Wales
University.
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