Title: Gifts
Producer: Tom Atwood
Client: HavenHouse St. Louis
Date: 1/02/09
production for nonprofits
Winner of 2003 Emmy® Award for "Invisible Weapons," a documentary on bullying and its effects on children; winner of 1993 Peabody Award for "Under the Influence," a documentary that examined the power of influence peddling at the Tennessee State Capitol. Documentaries nominated for eight Emmy’s. For more information, or to see additional video, click on the links below.
New Documentary
Is documentary filmmaking explotive by nature? It's a question producer Tom Atwood sets out to explore in a new film, "Trafficking in Reality." However, the documentary takes an unexpected turn when a young woman featured in one of Atwood's previous documentaries questions his tactics and behavior as a producer. The issues of consent and exploitation, illustrated vividly in the film's critiques of other well-known documentaries, become personal as Atwood wrestles with past ethical lapses, with his own trafficking in reality. To see excerpts, visit www.traffickinginreality.com.