Video Demo
Description: The video demo on the next page shows a diverse range of projects that highlight Fox’s ability to entertain and inform: Includes a trailer for a TV feature, entertaining clips from business training, Animations: media awards, a Food Network demo and Continuing Medical Education, excerpts from documentaries; from Issues & Impact/PBS, Healing Art: A Portrait of a Women’s Art Therapy Group and a promo for SportNet Baseball, CD/DVD/Web with Lou Piniella.
Roles specified for each project
Open Your Heart America: (Music Video/Entertainment/Education Closed Captioned)
This inspiring pop anthem is a winner of the KIDS FIRST! Endorsement: 1) Music video; Gaia sings/signs to city kids and an old homeless woman, leading a group of all ages in an upbeat finale. 2) The poetry and meaning of American Sign Language (ASL) is used to teach the song.
Co-Writer/Director/Line Producer
Healing Art: A Portrait of a Women's Art Therapy Group (Documentary)
Examines women working together guided by Art Therapist SueEllen Semekowski. Members reveal their process through interviews, group discussions, art work and healing.
Director/Account Representative
A Place to REST (Fundraising Documentary for a comprehensive homeless services agency)
This documentary examines REST’s life saving mission as Men’s Shelters on the North Side of Chicago are disappearing. REST was founded in 1979 when a homeless man froze to death in a dumpster and neighbors’ vowed to never let it happen again... But it did on Christmas Day 2008 blocks from a shelter where there was no room for him.
Co-Writer/Co-Producer/Director
Issues & Impact (PBS Documentary/Public Affairs)
This award-winning series was shown on PBS and Jones Cable. "Issues & Impact" was produced as field documentaries and in studio panel discussions with a new look developed under Joyce’s leadership.
Line Producer
History Through Art (Documentary Series/Discovery)
An eight disk documentary series for grades 9 -12 that explores how music, architecture, sculpture and art reflected and influenced their times and subsequent eras. Connections are made between culture, style and history, politics, philosophy and science.
Co-Writer/Line Producer/Director/Account Representative
Your Clients Need Umbrella Coverage (Internal Business Training)
Using a Magritte-like look: grass, sky, suspended umbrellas and lighting effects, this show educates American Farm Bureau Insurance agents/underwriters about Umbrella Coverage.
Writer/Producer/Director/Account Representative
Safe Science: Lab Safety Awareness (Education/Discovery)
Presented as a science lab classroom drama, this show includes visual demonstrations: putting out an accidental fire and modeling the effects of acid and electricity on people. These hazards are responsibly presented, but have high impact on students, grades 7-12.
Co-Writer/Line Producer/Director
Etiquette through the Ages: Food Network Demo (Entertainment/Education)
This animated bumper demo for the Food Network gave a taste of the entertainment value and the tone of the series. Produced with Avril 1 Group and Big Shoulders Productions.
Co-Producer/Director
Everyday Science: Discovering the Scientific Method (Education/Discovery)
Description: It may seem like fun experiments at home, but Everyday Science invites the characters and the audience to use scientific principles and creative/deductive thinking to explain common experiences. Why doesn’t your drink overflow when the ice melts? Why does a rainbow happen?
Co-Writer/Line Producer/Director
Music Appreciation Courses: Intermediate Level (Discovery)
In the Rhythm and Melody and Dynamics and Tone programs, connections are made among teacher’s demonstrations to four distinct periods of Western Classical Music as well as his own music, visual art and creativity.
Director/Line Producer/Account Representative
ACCESS: The New Way (Internal Business Training/Information)
Description: Using a day in the life narrative structure, this entertaining multiple award-winning Internal Information/ Training program for Bell+Howell showed service representatives and dispatchers how the new computer system would make their lives easier. They were also reassured about the change and being monitored more closely by management.
Writer/Producer/Director/Account Representative
