About
We specialize in true to light documentary and television series production. We create programs that entertain, educate, motivate and involve each viewer as a participant in the lives and stories of each subject. NLF produces educational, promotional and fundraising videos for non-profit organizations and businesses that want to connect with a larger audience in a more personal way. Our goal is to INFORM AND TO INSPIRE ACTION AND PARTICIPATION. We produce video stories for television broadcast, event projection, web and DVD distribution.
Andrea B. Campbell
An award-winning director, producer, editor and videographer specializing in documentary and personal profiles, Andrea has filmed all over the globe. Projects include:
Market Fresh America - a cooking, travel and educational series for television broadcast, web and schools.
Village Stories - Profiles of artisans creating fair trade products for Ten Thousand Villages filmed in West and East Africa.
Progress and Preservation - A video poem.
Camera for The Tsunami's Wake: Healing from Trauma - A documentary about disaster trauma therapy in Indonesia and how different methods have been useful in rebuilding communities since the tsunami on December 26, 2004.
Campbell directed the series Ethical Markets for PBS broadcast and Circle of Love, a series of programs for WHYY-PBS that document first hand the joys and struggles of family caregiving which garnered many awards including the 2005 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards & Best Television Documentary. Campbell also produced a second series, Circle of Care, exploring the uses of the arts in medicine.
Her fictional, narrative, short film Fake Clouds was selected for presentation at the Sundance festival in 2003. Children in a Jar is an Emmy nominated documentary about the tumultuous social, political, economic and environmental landscape of Central America told through the stories of the children who have been left behind. A work-in-progress, Naked Philosopher is a collection of interviews and footage of religious and philosophical characters recorded by the director during a five-week trip through Northern India. Campbell developed, produced, directed and edited a series of documentary profile programs, People Who Must, featuring people with a driving passion for a particular issue or interest for PBS. One of the programs, Ms. Liberty, earned Campbell recognition as a director/ producer, by receiving an Emmy award for outstanding documentary and a Gracie Allen award for outstanding representation of women in the media. She received Emmy nominations and awards for, XYZ - Examine Your Zip Code, a weekly magazine program, and a series of stories for WHYY examining the new immigrant communities in Philadelphia.
Campbell holds a B.S. in Broadcasting from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and has experience in network, cable and public television.
Grantee Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellowship, 2004
Chad Kinsey
An emmy winning guitar player/producer/composer/editor. He has scored several short films and documentaries including Fake Clouds (Sundance 2003), In the Tsunami's Wake, Children in a Jar, Rough Cut, and Mayor for Life (Emmy Award - Outstanding Music Composition 1997). In the 90's, he played 600 gigs and released two albums with burning bus opening concerts for Sting, DMB, etc. He currently performs live with rock singer Loretta Bilieux and in the Beatle's band Imitation #9.
Partial Filmography
Village Stories - Africa (artisan profiles) showcase the stories of fair trade artisans in West and East Africa for Ten Thousand Villages. 2010 - producer, director, camera, editor
http://www.tenthousandvillages.com
select profiles on Stories page.
Multiple Camera Band shoots, Music Videos and Artist Profiles 1993 to present.
select profiles on Stories page.
Ethics in Business Awards (business profiles) Videos for projection at the Ethics in Business Awards presentations by Samaritan Counseling Center. 2007-2009
producer, director, camera, editor
http://ethics.scclanc.org/index.htm
select profiles on Stories page
Experience the Arts and Culture (artist and cultural organization profiles) 3-7 minute stories for WHYY/PBS. 2007-2009 - producer/director.
Links to stories by Andrea Campbell:
Calder Family - for WHYY
Calder City Hall - for WHYY
History of the Banjo - for WHYY
POEM - Trapeta Mayson - "Father" Emmy Nominated 2009 - for WHYY
Edgar Allen Poe House, Philadelphia - Emmy Winner 2009 - for WHYY
Hopewell Furnace - for WHYY
Philadelphia Folk Festival - for WHYY
The Urban Mourning Project (non profit program profile) 2007
Project examined the use of spontaneous memorials on the streets, murals and the arts as a means of dealing with grief.
Producer, Director, Camera, Editor
The Tsunami's Wake: Healing from Trauma (documentary) 2006-2007 - For Mennonite Central Committee, MCC
This documentary introduces you to people who are struggling to recover from the tragic aftermath of the the Tsunami that struck Indonesian and coastal areas of India in December of 2004. This film is about healing and what we can do to help rebuild lives and communities.
In December 2006 and January 2007, on the two year anniversary of the deadly tsunami,ÊAndrea Campbell of Natural Light Films, Inc. traveled to Indonesia, and costal India to shoot this documentary for Mennonite Central Committee and Director, Dirk Eitzen.Ê
http://www.mcc.org/traumahealing
Circle of Care: The Arts in Medicine, 2006 - Documentary including 30 min. program and 1 hour live studio audience and panel discussion. A WHYY original documentary and series of short segments, visits area hospitals, rehabilitation centers and adult residential communities to intimately witness the process of expressing and communicating through music, dance, painting, theater and poetry.
http://www.whyy.org/widerhorizons/circleofcare_stories.html
Ethical Markets (magazine series) 13@30, Jan. 2005, PBS/EPS, director, camera, editor, producer A weekly half-hour financial lifestyle magazine TV series created by Hazel Henderson redefining success through a positive look at what is possible.Ê Real examples of people, companies and organizations illustrate the Òtriple bottom line;Ó respecting people and the environment while earning a profit. The stories are visually compelling and backed up with solid financial and market data.Ê The news, features, interviews, roundtables, and expert commentary probe the assumptions behind the issues that affect every consumer and investor globally, and look at assets and wealth in a new perspective. The show uses new indicators to measure our quality of life and examines how individuals can align their money and their values.Ê The show will back up stories with solid economic performance, financial, and market data in a visually compelling way Ð creating a showcase for new yardsticks and actual measures of success and impact. Produced by GlassOnion Productions. Andrea Campbell of Natural Light Films - Director/editor http://www.ethicalmarkets.tv/
Circle of Love (documentary series) 2004, 3@30 , 10@2 WHYY/PBS, producer, director
CIRCLE OF LOVE is an original three-part series featuring first-person accounts of the daily struggles and joys of family caregiving. Digital cameras were provided to four families, enabling them to capture their individual stories on tape.
These intimate video diaries, combined with scenes taped by the producer/director, provide a personal exploration into the often-overlooked experiences of family caregivers and their loved ones as they deal with such health issues as autism, Alzheimer's disease and depression.
Produced and Directed by Andrea Campbell of Natural Light Films for WHYY.
http://www.whyy.org/widerhorizons/circleoflove.html
Children in a Jar (documentary), 50 min., producer, director, editor trailer on video page
Tree Stories and Leaving a Legacy (non-fiction series, PBS/APTS) camera, sound, editor
Fake Clouds (short narrative fiction film) Sundance Film Festival screening 2003 and 2004-2005 broadcasts on Sundance Channel, director, producer, cinematographer, editor trailer on video page
Wild Moments / Hearst Argyle, freelance editor
The Things We Do for Love / Banyan Productions & Lifetime television, producer
People Who Must (documentary series) WITF/PBS, producer, director, editor, camera A series of documentary profile programs,People Who Must featured people with a driving passion for a particular issue or interest, for public television, WITF, Harrisburg, PA. One of the programs, Ms. Liberty, earned Campbell recognition as a director, producer, by receiving an Emmy award for outstanding documentary and a Gracie Allen award for outstanding representation of women in the media. Other programs in the series include: Mayor for Life, about the long term un-opposed mayor of Harrisburg, PA, Golden Vision, about a woman fighting for the rights of Chinese asylum seekers detained in prison in York Co. PA for over three years, Burning Bus, about a band, life, relationships, money and the struggle to survive in the music business and Singing Souls, about a family of gospel singers numbering more that 140 people from grandpa, aka Rev. White on down.
Saving Pennsylvania (documentary) / WHYY/PBS, associate producer, sound
The New Immigrants (short doc. series) WHYY, producer, director
The Amish & Us, PBS / ITVS, sound, camera, associate producer
XYZ, (magazine entertainment program), WITF/PBS, producer, director, editor, camera.
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS FOR: Women Organized Against Rape, National Council on Adult Literacy, Pennsylvania Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, producer, director, writer, camera, editor