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Kenny Dalsheimer founded The Groove Productions in 1996 after teaching middle school social studies for ten years at Carolina Friends School. Since switching gears and careers Kenny has split his time creating locally inspired and regional documentaries, producing videos for community organizations and non-profits, and teaching youth video workshops.
In addition to producing documentary films, The Groove Productions offers a full pallette of video production services from shooting events and interviews to editing video footage and photographs to producing promotional and educational videos.
The Groove Productions took its name from Kenny's first film project – Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange Country Speedway. The groove is a racing term for, "the fastest route around the track, the most efficient or quickest way around the track for a particular driver."
Kenny invites you to call or email with documentary, video production and workshop ideas.
Film Project News
A New Kind of Listening received the Humanitarian Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and has been acquired by over 50 University libraries around the world.
A Weaverly Path screened at Cinema on the Bayou in Lafayette, LA in January and will be released on DVD in March 2012.
Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty is in final months of post production. Please consider a tax deductible contribution via our fiscal sponsor, The Southern Documentary Fund to help us complete and distribute the film.
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Patrick Dougherty sculpture in process in Highlands, NC, June 2010.
A New Kind of Listening is an Official Selection at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Polly will be driving the tear drop down for the Fall screening and to network with folks to support our grassroots Inclusive Arts Campaign. Polly will be attending a session at the TASH National Conference int he Fall as well. The film also received a "strongly recommended" review in
Library Journal.
Kenny produced two short videos for Seasons of Change, a soon to be launched traveling exhibit touring about issues of climate change. The videos captured the Southern voices and work of Anthony Cole, a farmer and Christmas Tree grower in Leicester, NC, and Willy Phillips, a crab fisherman in Columbia, NC. Post production work continues on a video piece about the Durham Arts Council's CAPS program at Lakeview School in Durham.
A New Kind of Listening was awarded the 2010 TASH Postive Images in the Media Award. The award honors films which promote positive images of people with disabilities and contributes to the elimination of stereotypes by portraying people with disabilities and their lives accurately and in respect of the complexities of being human.
Visit the project website to learn about The Inclusive Arts Campaign – our mission to use the film to advance inclusive arts initiatives nationwide and internationally.
The story of a visionary director, a one-of-a-kind theater group and a young man who could not speak, yet found the voice he had been looking for all his life.
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anewkindoflistening.com
CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE INCLUSIVE ARTS CAMPAIGN
BENDING SPACE:
Georges Rousse and the Durham Project
Learn More, Order DVD's – bendingspacethefilm.com
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Website for The Groove Productions has been updated after nearly 10 years. www.thegrooveproductions.com
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CURRENT & PAST PROJECTS
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Clean Energy Durham/City of Durham Project – Fall 2011
Producing a video about the Neighborhood Energy Retrofit Program (NERP), a partnership with the City of Durham, Clean Energy Durham, Advance Energy, and local businesses that reduces energy consumption in over 600 homes in Durham by 20 percent.
NC Museum of Art ArtsNC Project – Fall 2011
Web video presenting the Concept Explorer tool on the ArtsNC website. The tool helps teachers integrate art into core subject areas and promote interdisciplinary learning.
Durham Arts Council/Lakeview School Arts Partnership – Fall 2011
A video portrait of the CAPS (Creative Arts in the Public and Private School) Program of the Durham Arts Council which brings professional teaching artist to Lakeview School.
Seasons of Change - NC Farmers and Climate Change – Summer 2011
Kenny produced two short video portraits of NC famers to accompany a museum exhibit about climate change.
Workshops with Communities in Schools of Orange Cty – Spring 2011
Kenny worked with a group of middle schoolers at Gravelly Hills Middle School After School Program in Efland, NC. Students created haiku video poems. Thanks to Communities in Schools of Orange County for supporting arts in the schools.
NC Museum of Art - Art of Collaboration Workshops – 2011
Kenny is working with student videographers at two Mebane, NC middle schools to document a year of arts integration projects and will edit a piece for an April 2011 celebration.
NC Museum of Art - Art of Collaboration Video – Spring 2010
Kenny edited a short video shot by students and teachers at schools across NC. The Art of Collaboration integrates arts education into traditional classrooms and encourages multidisciplinary thinking about art, culture and society.
Genesis Home of Durham - The Path Home – 2009
Video celebrating 20 year anniversary of this great non-profit in our city. Learn more about their many years of work to end homelessness for families with children and young adults at genesishome.org
Bacon Street School Workshop – Spring 2009
Five 9th graders worked with Kenny to create oral history projects focused on elders in their lives. Students interviewed family members, neighbors and teachers exploring key events in history and the power of memory to inform our present.
Durham Nativity School – Winter 2009
Kenny worked with four 8th graders to produce biographical videos about students lives, interests, hopes and dreams. The project was supported in part through the Durham Arts Council's CAPS program. The video was shared with members of the school community at the end-of-year assembly in May.
Achievement Academy of Durham Video – Fall 2008
The Achievement Academy of Durham empowers hard-working, at-risk students, who have dropped out of high school, to become productive, successful members of the community through obtaining a North Carolina High School Equivalency Diploma and postsecondary education. Kenny produced a short video that told the story of this great non-profit through the voices of students, staff and youth advocates in Durham.
Visit the AAD website to view video and learn more about the program
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The Hero Book Project – Spring 2008
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| Kenny and artist Rachel Galper worked with a group of high school students on a project inspired by an international initiative developed by the Ten Million Memory Project (10MMP), Hero Books offer opportunities to translate daily triumphs and heroism into deeper community involvement. Students created their own hero books, art and writing and Kenny is editing a short video about the project. Look for a presentation of student work and screening of the video this spring. The Hero Book Project has received generous support from Durham Parks and Recreation, Stone Circles, and the People’s Alliance. |
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Bacon Street School – Fall 2007
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Kenny completed a video production workshop with high school students and teachers at Bacon Street School during the fall of 2007. Students produced a short video – Lakeview School: The Bacon Street Campus. The video explores the program and philosophy of Bacon Street School, one of several important alternative schools in the Durham Public Schools. The Bacon Street workshops are sponsored by Creative Arts in the Public and Private Schools (CAPS) of the Durham Arts Council, Lakeview School, Durham Public Schools, and Bull City Arts Collaborative. Let Kenny know if you’d like to see a copy of this educational, entertaining project and learn more about Bacon Street School.
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Genesis Home Video – October 2007
Genesis Home works to end homelessness for families with children and young people by providing housing and supportive services to foster independence. Kenny produced Genesis Home Stories in October ‘07 which was screened at a fall event to support the good work of this organization.
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| BENDING SPACE: Community Premiere – Sept 10, 2007 |
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BENDING SPACE: Georges Rousse and The Durham Project premiered to a packed Fletcher Hall crowd at the Carolina Theatre of Durham. Georges and Anne Marie Rousse flew in from Paris to be part of the documentary’s launch beyond the Bull City.
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The film’s website includes George’s final Durham photos and other works, film clips, and a multi-media archive of the Rousse Project.
DVD's can be ordered at the website. |
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| Justice in the Mirror Documentary Project – Spring 2007 |
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| Kenny worked with Bacon Street School students and social studies teacher Justin Rydstrom on this interdisciplinary documentary project, Students selected historic/current social issues, interviewed area experts, and produced short documentaries to completed by the end of the school year. The project was a residency sponsored in part by the Durham Arts Council’s CAPS program. |
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Civil Rights, My Life – Winter 2006-2007
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| Kenny completed the second installment of this youth media arts project – a collaboration with A New Day, the Criminal Justice Resource Center, Spirit House and other volunteers and artists. Over forty people attended a screening of impressive student projects and documentary work on February 11, 2007. |
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Workshops at A New Day Juvenile Day Reporting Center 2000-2005
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Kenny thanks Program Director Amy Elliott for facilitating and supporting many great projects with middle and high school students. And special thanks to the students who contributed video, writing, stories and more to the documentary Choices and Change.
EARLY FILM PROJECTS
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SHINE ON: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (2000)
The story of one man's journey through blues music to spiritual redemption. 82-year-old Richard Trice was the last survivor of the heyday of the blues in Durham, North Carolina in the 1930s.
Click here to view trailer
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Richard Trice and John Dee Holeman
Photo courtesy of Lorraine Tipaldi.
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GO FAST, TURN LEFT: Voices from Orange Country Speedway (1997)
The first film project (thanks to Cal and Michael for kick-starting it) And special thanks to the track owners and staff and especialy the drivers and their families for sharing stories, history, and experiences about short track racing and this historic track.
Click here to view film trailer
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Walking Miracles (2001)
A collaboration with Barbara Dickinson and Jeff Storer. The film is based on a theatrical and dance work produced by Barbara and Jeff and tells the stories of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. |
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