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Simone Fary, MA
Simone is both an instructional designer and award-winning documentary filmmaker, and has found that working in each field enriches her skills in the other. Click here to see her instructional design portfolio. As a filmmaker she:
Co-produced/Directed Sensei Fran Kicks Ass which screened at 19 film festivals.
Produced/Directed The Life of Cheng Se Tseo in His Own Words, which aired on two Pennsylvania public TV stations.
Co-Produced American Feud and Confounding Father.
Produced/directed a series of short instructional films for Afghan and Iraqi refugee interpreters.
Co-founded and co-facilitated the Docs in Progress/Women in Film and Video Roundtable.
Designed/produced/wrote/edited two explainer animations - Academic Appointments and What is a CV?
Researched, produced and found archival images for A History of Higher Education.
Serves as a Topic Host in the D-word documentary community.
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Simone & Richard
at the old “Doc House”
Richard Hall
Richard specializes in videos on history & politics. He also enjoys finding & posting public domain archival films to the Nerds Make Media Youtube channel. Richard departed C-SPAN in 2021 after 30 years at the public affairs network to concentrate on independent films. Richard also dabbles in painting & drawing & song writing.
Curator of the Nerds Make Media YouTube channel
Director & Co-Producer of, The World We Wanted, American Feud, Confounding Father, and many other shorts films.
Curator & presenter of “Vintage Movie Night” screenings of shorts & clips from archival classroom & ephemeral films
Conceived & produced the weekly C-SPAN archival film series Reel America® (2014-2021)
Produced, shot & edited the C-SPAN American Artifacts series which visits museums & historic places. (approx. 200 episodes from 2010-2021)
Interviewed numerous authors, journalists, politicians & many others for broadcast on C-SPAN
Co-facilitated the Docs in Progress/Women in Film and Video Roundtable from 2012 to 2023
