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Cherokee Stickball Documentary Scheduled for TV, Festival Premiere

October 29, 2020 by

Documentary Synopsis Nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina is a tight-knit community of the remaining members of the Cherokee tribe, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. One of the tribes’ cultural traditions still practiced is the game of stickball. In the year 2000, nearly 100 women: mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, and […]

Filed Under: Faculty News, Featured Story, News, Student News Tagged With: documentary, Isaac Fowler, Land Grant Films, Nick Geidner, Tim Morris

Geidner: ‘Goodnight with Dolly’ Off to Great Start

April 9, 2020 by

With Dolly Parton’s new 10-week bedtime-story series Goodnight with Dolly under way, the honorary UT alumna is doing her part to comfort kids all over the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to Associate Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media Nick Geidner, who produced and directed the documentary film The Library That Dolly Built. […]

Filed Under: Faculty News, Featured Story, News Tagged With: Dolly Parton, Imagination Library, Journalism and Electronic Media, Land Grant Films, Nick Geidner

Dolly Parton to Read Bedtime Stories, UT Film Premiere Rescheduled

April 2, 2020 by

As the COVID-19 lockdown has millions staying at home, country music legend Dolly Parton will help kids get ready to sleep by reading them a children’s book online at bedtime. The series, Goodnight with Dolly, will air once a week beginning April 2. The project is a response to the delayed premiere of The Library […]

Filed Under: Events, Featured Story, News Tagged With: Dolly Parton, Land Grant Films, Nick Geidner, The Library That Dolly Built

Library That Dolly Built - Crew with Dolly

Dolly Parton Film by Land Grant Films to Debut Nationally April 2

March 4, 2020 by

The Library That Dolly Built, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, student-driven film and documentary about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, will premiere April 2 in New York City and be screened in theaters across the nation. Associate Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media Nick Geidner is the director and producer of the film, which was crewed […]

Filed Under: Faculty News, Featured Story, News, Student News Tagged With: Abby Bower, Brock Zych, documentary, Dolly Parton, Journalism and Electronic Media, Land Grant Films, Nick Geidner

Faculty Earn Campus ORE Awards

March 29, 2019 by CCI

Three professors from the College of Communication and Information were recognized for their scholarship at the inaugural UT Office of Research and Engagement (ORE) Research Awards Luncheon on Monday, March 25. CCI Interim Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Chancellor’s Professor and BOV Professor Suzie Allard (SIS) received a Research Spotlight Award in recognition of being […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Carol Tenopir, Nick Geidner, Suzie Allard

Land Grant Films, Students Receive Emmy Nomination

November 26, 2018 by CCI

 Welcome Home Brother, a film created by two recent UT graduates as part of Land Grant Films’ Defender of Dreams documentary series, received a nomination in the topical documentary category of the Midsouth Regional Emmys. “The news of our recent Emmy nomination is very exciting. I am so thankful for those who appeared in our […]

Filed Under: News, Student News Tagged With: Emmy, Land Grant Films, Nick Geidner

Students’ Documentary to Be Featured in Nashville Film Festival

April 9, 2018 by CCI

The Nashville Film Festival has announced Welcome Home Brother, directed by School of Journalism and Electronic Media seniors Isaac Fowler and Tim Morris, as an official selection in its short documentary category. The festival is an Academy Award–qualifying competition and received more than 6,000 entries for 2018. Fowler and Morris’s eight-minute film documents the experiences […]

Filed Under: News, Student News Tagged With: Isaac Fowler, Land Grant Films, Nick Geidner, PBS, Tim Morris, Vietnam veterans, Welcome Home Brother

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