Kevin McCaffrey

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.