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“My Journey Home” winners
to air on UNC-TV
Sanford, NC – Three Central Carolina Community College
(CCCC) broadcasting production technology students will
have their semester’s projects aired on UNC-TV this
weekend. The student videos will be shown on “Ed
Forum,” Saturday, May 8, 2004, at 10:00 a.m.
For the past four months, students have been creating documentaries on the theme, “My
Journey Home” as part of a partnership between the college and UNC-TV. Of
the 11 student projects created for the CCCC competition, three were chosen by
CCCC administrators and UNC-TV staff to be aired statewide.
“
I am extremely proud of our students’ work,” said Heather Burgiss,
CCCC television instructor. “They were very excited about the projects
and went above and beyond to produce wonderful pieces.”
Christine Parker, who won the competition, features the journey of Maureen Parker
from her home in England 40 years ago to life in the mountains of North Carolina,
where she lives now. The video documents the challenges Parker experienced
while adjusting to life in America without her husband, who was called to duty
in Vietnam.
Finalist
Alan
Roberts featured CCCC
PC
Technician
Doug
Arevalo. Arevalo
was born and raised in El Salvador and moved to the United States where he became
the first college graduate in his family. He was also one of the first
Hispanic graduates from CCCC’s Internet technology program.
Kai Smith took a different spin on the “My Journey Home” project. He
featured his great-great-great grandmother who, at 102, has watched America’s
landscape change for over a century. Smith’s video essay documents
her life in Lee County from the first flight through the post 9-11 world.
Both Parker and Roberts will represent CCCC and UNC-TV in the national competition,
called “America, My Home” this summer. If selected in the national
competition, the students’ videos would be broadcast on national television
or streamed over the Internet through the project’s website.
The project is part of a national grant from public broadcasting station (PBS) WETA
in Washington, D.C. The grant provides funding for local PBS stations to
partner with local educational institutions to produce documentaries relating
to the theme “My Journey Home.” UNC-TV was one of ten public
broadcasting stations around the nation receiving funds.
Media Contact:
Andrew Sawyer
Central Carolina Community College
(919) 718-7265
asawyer@cccc.edu |
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