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Meet Donna Kimmel, volunteer producer at Access Montgomery.
Dr. Donna Kimmel is no stranger to the studio. She has been an active producer at Access Montgomery since the late 1980s.
Kimmel has a master's degree in Fine Arts and a doctorate degree in Psychotherapy. Using her unique qualifications as a psychotherapist, teacher and actor, she produces her current program, Mental Health Minutes: A Dramatization.
Mental Health Minutes: A Dramatization depicts fictional clients in psychotherapy. This program is unique in that the sessions are improvised, not scripted. It has been in production for two years and uses most of the same volunteer crew as it did from the very beginning.
Over the years she has produced several PSAs and programs. Count Down to Women's Abuse and On Your Stomach: A Way to Reduce Back Pain won her two Monty awards.
As a producer, Kimmel loves the process of putting together video and selecting images to tell a story. "When the program is enhanced with good editing it can increase the dynamic force of the program."
For new producers, Kimmel offers the following advice:
* Start with a small project you can create yourself.
* Learn through experience.
* A reliable crew is very important.
Mental Health Minutes: A Dramatization airs Tuesdays at 4:30 PM and Saturdays at 7 PM on AMTV 21.
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AMTV volunteer producer, Samuel
Bland won a Telly Award in this year’s
29th Annual Telly Awards for his program,
Sacrifice, Sacrifice, a program
featuring the sacrifices the troops and
their families make on a daily basis.
The Telly Awards, a national and
international competition, is the
premier award honoring outstanding
local, regional, and cable TV programs
and commercials, as well as the
finest video and film productions.
“It would not have been possible
without the help and support of the
AMTV staff” said Bland, “my teachers
who provided the training, my
community project manager, and
the advice and guidance of many
volunteers and Facilities personnel at
Access Montgomery.
To be able to take an idea and
subject that I am passionate about,
put it into a viewing format and have
it cablecast is something that I never
would have dreamed possible. To
have the program be selected for an
award is “icing on the cake.”
I strongly recommend the Access
Montgomery training and support
program to anyone who is interested
in television and film production and
the most beautiful thing is it is right in
our own backyard.” |
