LOCAL PRODUCER RECIEVES FULL SCHOLARSHIP FOR NATIONAL PBS WORKSHOP
DATE: June 10, 2010
CONTACT: Jennifer Kowalczyk
PHONE: 518-563-9770 ext. 127
EMAIL: jkowalczyk@mountainlake.org
Plattsburgh, NY - 6/10/10 — Colin Powers, Director of Production and Programming at Mountain Lake PBS, was recently selected to attend the 10th annual Producers Workshop hosted by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS, to be held in Boston, June 19-25, 2010.
Twenty-five candidates were chosen from over 165 well-qualified applicants for this year's seminar. Candidates were evaluated by representatives of CPB, PBS, and WGBH. The scholarship recipients were chosen based on their work experience, particularly as it applied to public television, their professional goals, their storytelling skills as demonstrated in their video presentations, their current projects, and recommendations from industry professionals.
“I’m thrilled to have been selected for this scholarship. The workshop’s teachers are an incredibly diverse and talented bunch,” said Colin Powers. “I’m just as impressed with my fellow students – they’ve premiered films at the Sundance, Tribeca, and South by Southwest Film Festivals and have been broadcast around the world. I think I’ll learn just as much from them.”
The Producers
Workshop is part of the CPB/PBS Producers Academy, which seeks to encourage new
and diverse voices for public broadcasting on all its platforms. Past
Workshoppers have gone on to contribute to many of PBS's signature programs,
including Frontline, American Experience, P.O.V., and Independent Lens, as well
as important local, regional, and online productions.
This year's Workshoppers will also be featured, along with their colleagues from
past years, in a new online social network, Workshop Online, to be launched
later this spring and available as a resource for all public broadcasting
hiring managers.
For more information, please
contact Jennifer Kowalczyk –
JKowalcyzk@mlpbs.org or 518.563.9770 ext. 127
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