Filmmakers

Native of Lincoln County, NC. Bachelor's degree in communications, minor in art, Winthrop College, plus education courses for teacher's certificate. Taught high school journalism and filmmaking in the evening division at Winthrop College. Reporter-photographer for South Carolina newspapers. Received numerous writing awards and an Associated Press first-place award; writer-photographer for the School District of Greenville County; TV news photographer and editor. A series, "Tuesday's Child," featuring foster care children available for adoption, received a national award along with Captain Kangaroo.

As an independent filmmaker she completed two award-winning documentaries in 16mm: The People Who Take Up Serpents and Everything Change Up Now, A View of the South Carolina Sea Islands. The awards were given by the Columbus International Film Festival.

A third documentary, Suffer the Children, an Essay on Abuse, produced on video, was awarded the Red Ribbon by the American Film Festival. A fourth video, Appalachian Women: A Patchwork Quilt, a history of women's activities in western North and South Carolina, was produced in conjunction with TV13, Asheville, NC. That film aired on ABC stations in the state and was placed in public school libraries.

The filmmaker then began her own company, American Image Makers, Inc., in Greenville, SC, where she created marketing, sales, training, and educational videos for business and industry, as well as TV commercials.