Katrina Media Fellowships
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Dee Davis
2006 Filmmaker To produce documentary shorts, public service announcements, and photographs as part of a national media campaign on rural Gulf Coast residents' struggle to re-establish their lives and communities. He will highlight how the failure to formulate effective rural policy is reaping disaster in the recovery areas and will use the campaign to propose policy alternatives. Davis is a veteran of the community-based and independent media arts field. He is producer and president of the Center for Rural Strategies, which he founded in 2001 to use communication tools to improve the public policy discourse about rural America. Before starting Rural Strategies, Davis was Executive Producer of Appalshop Films and Television for nearly three decades. While there, Appalshop received a number of awards for its video work, including the duPont-Columbia Award for Broadcast Journalism and the Media Arts Center Award from the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture. Whitesburg, Kentucky | |
