executive producer
Following the completion of an M.A. in Inter-American Diplomatic History, service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, S.A. and a Ph.D. in multicultural education at the University of New Mexico, Jim worked as a Drop-Out Prevention Specialist on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and as a Resource Training Director with the Minneapolis Public Schools. In these positions, he was responsible for developing and delivering a variety of curriculum and training programs. Since that time, Jim has carried the professional profiles of writer, award-winning film and TV producer and director, telecommunications and marketing consultant, statewide media campaign coordinator in the State of Minnesota, workshop leader, public speaker, and lecturer.
Jim's early award-winning investigative research and film and video work includes: an investigative documentary on Agent Orange (Agent Orange) narrated by Martin Sheen; a 15-week, half-hour commercially broadcast television series; 12 major national teleconferences and other documentaries on rural poverty; creating the future in rural communities; national land stewardship; and a summer youth employment video about working with at-risk kids.
Jim produced and directed an 18-minute intergenerational dramatic film, Foreclosure (1982). The film was independently funded and included a cast consisting completely of local talent—no professional actors. In 1984, Jim produced and directed a community dramatic film in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a one half-hour intergenerational children's film, The St. Cloud Sleep. This film broke new ground in children's entertainment as the first made-for-television children's film where the story idea, the cast, and the principal funding came from a community that had made the commitment to improve the quality of children's television.
Jim also produced a half-hour, made for television documentary, Creating the Future in Rural Communities (1994). The video was used as part of a workshop to train rural leaders nationwide around the concept of change.
Most recently, Jim's independent productions include:
"A Healing Walk" (2006) – Televised throughout northwestern Minnesota on Public Television, this half-hour documentary chronicles a 79-mile intergenerational walk from Cass Lake to Red Lake, Minnesota. The walk was organized by a Native American charter school in Cass Lake and was the first community response to the Red Lake School shooting.
"Immigrant Voices" (2007) – is a half-hour documentary telling the stories of immigrants (old and new) living in Worthington, Minnesota. Jim produced the film with two high school videographers. It has been used to promote dialogue about immigration issues.
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