ANDY ADKINS

THE WORK

[abridged]

9-24-2020

For the past couple years I’ve been working away at a long term documentary about the decades-long fight over the Opal Creek Wilderness, which was recently ravaged by a massive wildfire. The Beachie Creek Fire upended the lives of many of the folks that had been graciously participating in the film. It destroyed their homes and communities, destroyed most of Jawbone Flats, and it killed George Atiyeh who I had the good fortune of getting to know over the course of shooting the film. The fire has also undoubtedly torched many (if not most) of the trees that made Opal Creek an Oregon icon. This has all made for a difficult few weeks and I’m not sure where the project goes next. I’ve not made much information about this film public, but you can learn a little about it at andyadkins.tv/OpalCreekFilm. And please consider a donation to the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center or the Mid—Valley Wildfire Relief Fund.

DISPATCHES

THE LAST GREEN THREAD (editor/graphics) is at Mountainfilm in Telluride this weekend!

AN AMERICAN ASCENT has its national broadcast debut - kicking off AfroPop season 9 on 2/16/2017 (MLK day).

AN AMERICAN ASCENT screens to 3,000 DC youth. See the blog post.

The White House screens AN AMERICAN ASCENT. See the blog post.

AN AMERICAN ASCENT screens at a private event in DC on 6/26. Need to know basis.

AN AMERICAN ASCENT opens the Roxbury Festival at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 6/17.

FURTHER READING

I make my own films, I make films for other people, and I help make other people's films better. Either way my goal is always the same: to get people to think, feel, and change when they watch something I've made.

Some career highlights: I produced and directed AN AMERICAN ASCENT, a documentary about the first team of African-American mountaineers to attempt Denali. It won many festival "best" awards, screened coast to coast, opened season 9 of AfroPop on PBS, and was selected by the Obama White House to screen at an official White House event. I had a two season stint as Senior Producer for the Emmy-winning Montana PBS series TERRA, and won an Emmy and Western Writers Spur Award for my editorial work on the nationally televised PBS documentary INDIAN RELAY. I co-produced and edited the award-winning documentary SOURCE TO SEA and have produced films for the National Park Service, and National 4-H Council. My commercial work includes producing the GET LOST, and HIGH PLAINS broadcast campaigns for Montana Tourism and various other projects for Vasque, First Interstate Bank, Iqra Fund, on1 Photography, and NetApp. I also sometimes teach, I have an MFA in non-fiction film, I specialize in motion graphics on the side, and I have a part 107 commercial remote pilot certificate for drone work. I'm based in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

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NAME DROPPING

Some of the fine folks I work with/for include:

Montana PBS

On1 Photography

First Interstate Bank

Grizzly Creek Films

Donate Life NW

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Wild Vision Films

Implement Productions

American Chemical Society

Lompoc Brewing

Hudson Henry Photography

Lions Vision Gift

Eye Bank of Association of America

Montana Tourism

Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center

NetApp

No Sunrise Wasted

Danny Schmidt Films

MercuryCSC

Patchmarks

Vasque

Colorado State University

Largo Studios

National Park Service

Northwest Documentary

Earth Vision Institute

Iqra Fund

Conservation Alliance

Conservation International

Montana State University

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

National Outdoor Leadership School

National 4-H Council

U.S. Forest Service

Barrelmaker Productions

Gyrfalcon Films

Goodwin-Grayzel Productions

National Environmental Education Foundation

Wildfire PIRE / National Science Foundation