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New Technology, History, Greyhound Rescue
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Writing, Producing, Project Management, Shooting, Editing, Encoding, Final Cut, Avid, Media 100
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John Sorensen is the VP of Production for Grace Creek Media, a television production company based in Annapolis, MD. Currently John oversees production, operations and programming for the Free Video On Demand channel, SPORTSKOOL. John has deep experience in both the creative and technical management of non-fiction programming for public television, cable, VOD, and the web.
On independent projects such as his feature documentary Project Happiness, he shot on location from India to Nigeria and personally edited much of the film. In the field John has produced programming as varied as the epicurean travel series Wine, Food & Friends with Karen MacNeil, to historical documentaries and public policy explorations, with interviews ranging from Henry Kissinger to George Lucas and the Dalai Lama. He has supervised, produced and directed several studio programs such the PBS series Think Tank. He has coordinated and supervised major documentary projects such as the PBS miniseries Heaven On Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism and The First Measured Century.
Before moving to Washington, John worked in Chicago as a writer, producer, and editor on several documentaries for A&E television including the series American Justice and Biography. His two-hour special J. Edgar Hoover: Personal and Confidential won a Bronze Chris Award. In addition to Project Happiness, the story of a year in the life of high school students on three continents, John has also produced and directed the independent documentary The Road to Yucca Mountain, a look at the proposed nuclear waste storage site near Las Vegas. He received a BA in International Service from American University in Washington, D.C., an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and attended FAMU, the Czech National Film School in Prague. Prior to working in film, John taught English to Junior High School students in rural Japan.
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