About Us

Media Working Group is a unique community of filmmakers, journalists, artists, activists, and educators exploring the many dimensions of 21st. century life.

MWG members are veteran storytellers who bring provocative and entertaining stories to the screen and classroom. From documentaries that build bridges with marginalized cultures to explorations that shed light on the natural world, we uncover new worlds and unique points of view, and are dedicated to personal expression, social change and earth-centered consciousness.

Film, visual arts and literature are rich sources of authentic experience that can foster transformative communication and social understanding between cultural groups and across political boundaries.

Since 1987 we’ve supported participatory media practices, project incubation and creative freedom for members and communities across time and space.

Media Working Group films have been seen nationally and internationally on BBC 2  and  BBC World Service, PBS, Independent Lens, P.O.V., Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, regional public television on Kentucky Educational Television, North Carolina Public Television, Ohio Public Television Consortium and WNET-13, New York.

MWG facilitates regional, national and international projects. They are supported by commissions and grants from ~ The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, UNESCO, Ohio Arts Council, Ohio Humanities Council, Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Humanities Council, Kentucky Historical Commission, state arts and humanities councils in Arkansas, Illinois and California, Independent Television Service, P.O.V.,  and foundations throughout the U.S.

The founding members came to independent media through labor, environment, and telecommunications activism  bringing organizing and coalition-building skills to the practice of documentary making.

Over time they developed a groundbreaking culture of participatory media and community collaboration strategies to create grassroots and national citizen engagement campaigns.

We have created transformative media and authentic participatory experiences with diverse partners and collaborators

ranging from labor unions, national public interest campaigns, artists, environmental and peace activists, Native American land rights groups, the homeless and their advocates, local government, planning agencies, churches, school districts, teacher unions.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Jean Donohue, President and Operations Manager

Fred Johnson, Vice-President

Tim Kraus, Secretary-Treasurer

Shawn Walker, Network Cultural Analyst and Advisor

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