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 .

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.