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Conversations on the Commons: Filmmakers and Historical Organizations
March 18, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Filmmakers and Historical Organizations
March 18, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
We’re taking public history to the silver screen in the next Conversation on the Commons! In our latest topic, “Filmmakers and Historical Organizations” we’ll welcome twice Emmy-nominated producer Andrew Giles Buckley, and New York Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary producer, and long-time history enthusiast Rick Beyer to present on their filmmaking projects with Massachusetts history connections. Have you worked with a filmmaker? Created your own video? Would you like some tips on how to create compelling video? Join us to learn about filmmaking, innovative public history, and their fascinating projects!
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE.
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Rick Beyer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, a New York Times best-selling author, and a long-time history enthusiast. He wrote and produced the PBS documentary The Ghost Army, telling the story of an extraordinary U.S. Army deception unit in WWII. He also co-authored a bestselling book on the unit, The Ghost Army of World War II, and is president of the Ghost Army Legacy Project. Beyer has made documentary films for The History Channel, A&E, National Geographic, and others. He is the author of the popular Greatest Stories Never Told series of history books. His most recent book, Rivals Unto Death, is a compelling account of the fateful rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. He leads historical tours in the US and Europe, and has appeared on CBS, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, CNN and elsewhere. After more than 30 years in Massachusetts, he now lives with his wife Marilyn Rea Beyer, in Chicago.
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- Andrew Giles Buckley is the Host and Producer of Hit & Run History, a historical novelist, travel book author, opinion journalist and world-class storyteller. A two-time Emmy-nominated producer, Andrew founded Hit and Run History in 2008, and the public media series has been hosted on GBH’s History site and broadcast on Rhode Island PBS and on local stations from DC to LA. Recipient of over 70 Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Grants and two grants from MassHumanities, Andrew takes his film crew down to the street level to investigate lesser known chapters of history with a travel element — less Ken Burns and more Anthony Bourdain. He lives in Chatham with his daughter and their two dogs, cat and rabbit.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.