Kevin McCaffrey

Documentary Filmmaker, Independent Oral Historian
e/Prime Media
https://www.eprimemedia.com
Kevin McCaffrey is an award winning filmmaker, writer, editor, and oral historian. His interests primarily focus on environmental solutions issues, diverse cultures, history, arts, culinary history, and Louisiana cultures. He has created documentaries for broadcast television, clients, exhibits, and online and which have also been screened in several film festivals. His articles and columns have appeared in local and national magazines and newspapers and he produced a book on the history of the New Orleans Jazz Fest. He was a member of the Louisiana Folklife Commission and has been awarded grants and fellowships including a Monroe Fellowship at Tulane University, Visiting Scholar at Newcomb College, and is a Fellow of the Loyola University Institute for Environmental Communication. Most recently, he has produced, directed and written several award winning environmental films grounded in Louisiana coastal restoration issues, always utilizing a balanced and diverse group of informants who are excerpted from intimate, longer form oral history derived interviews. During the pandemic he produced Eternal Flow,a documentary on how scientists, artists, engineers and community members visit and relate to the Mississippi River in Louisiana. It is designed for online watching in an intended experimental form a stacked documentary that will be added to in time so viewers may choose whichever portions interest them or the whole film. One section of the film also invented the pandemic influenced "Six Foot Interview"--longer personal comments on the Mississippi.

Experience

I have been doing forms of journalism, writing, research (field and archival) and interviewing since 1972. I have been an independent contractor in my current field of documentary work since 1998, after a 25 year career as a bookseller. I have started community humanities festivals, contributed to educational panels, garnered awards recognition and aired documentaries in PBS stations, as well as screenings and Film Festivals. Details are at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_J._McCaffrey

Services

Documentary filmmaking is a collaborative medium, so beside the technical skills of writing, camera work, editing and finishing projects, I have experience managing many diverse people of diverse skills. I have created projects and documented through interviews, handled ephemera, and used maps, graphics, and other media.

Languages

Regions Available for Work

Other Regions: All

Specialty

In public comments I always refer to my work showing "ordinary people doing ordinary things." What are the connections of people to their geography, environment, ethnicity, culture and history with their current day to day take?I have collected a great deal of contemporary folklife, technical memory, sports music, arts, culinary and scientific knowledge as well as traditional ecological knowledge in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Subject Areas

    • Local/Regional Histories:
    • Louisana coastal peoples, New Orleans history and culture, and Cajun culture.

    Purpose of Contact

    • I am available to answer questions, or provide mentorship to other oral historians
    • I am available for hire - as an oral historian, consultant, presenter, educator, or related services
    • I am available to collaborate - on research, community projects, artistic endeavors, or other joint undertakings with peers
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