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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, workshop and project ideas.
A New Kind of Listening
We have launched our new website and grassroots campaign to inspire and promote inclusive arts projects far and wide. Please visit our site to learn more and join our campaign: www.anewkindoflistening.com
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.
VIEW FILM TRAILER
VISIT NEW WEBSITE: anewkindoflistening.com
Please support our project and grassroots advocacy campaign to promote inclusive arts with a tax deductible donation.
CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PROJECT
New Film in Progress: The Patrick Dougherty Project
Kenny has begun shooting a new film with Penelope Maunsell (co-director on Bending Space) about NC artist Patrick Dougherty. Production will continue through 2010 as we document Patrick's creation of several new installations in the southeast.
Patrick Dougherty sculpture in process in Highlands, NC, June 2010.
Kenny is editing A Weaverly Path summer 2010.
A Weaverly Path is an intimate portrait of tapestry weaver Silvia Heyden, a very special artist, pushing the boundaries of textile arts and creating works inspired by her love of the Eno River and more...
BENDING SPACE:
Georges Rousse and the Durham Project
Learn More, Order DVD's – bendingspacethefilm.com
View Trailer
NC Broadcasts continue through 2010 on UNC-TV.
Check out Kanye West Blog. . .
Website for The Groove Productions: www.thegrooveproductions.com
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CURRENT & PAST PROJECTS
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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
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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