Virginia Friedman, Producer
VP and Executive Director of the Center for the Documentary at the College of Charleston, Virginia Friedman has created documentaries for broadcast and festivals, always on time and on budget. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including regional Emmys for “Where Do We Go from Here” and “For Every Person There Is a Name” Her narrative short, “Saint of the Zuiderzee”, which she wrote and produced, won an EMMY for lighting and Best Dramatic Short in the 2008 SINY Film Festival. She teaches Introduction to the Documentary at the College of Charleston. 

Tim Fennell, Director
Veteran videographer/editor Tim Fennell has earned Best Videography awards in RTNDA, UPI, Associated Press regional and national competitions, and also Emmy, Addy, ITVA, Communicator, and CASE awards.  He teaches video and documentary production at the College of Charleston and gives seminars on digital editing. Fennell has produced two instructional videos: Video Production in the Classroom and Editing Video in the Classroom.

Jessica Keegan, Associate Producer

Joel “JJ” Corbett, Audio Engineer

Dave Brown, Videographer/Editor

Project Scholars:
Antonio de la Cova, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is the author of a number of scholarly works including Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales, and The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution.

Dr. David Gleeson, Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston, is the author and recipient of the Donald Murphy Distinguished First Book Award for, The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. His current research interests include immigrant networks in the American South, and the role of the Catholic Church in the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dr. Robert May, Director of the Honors Program in History at Purdue University, is an expert on U.S. nineteenth-century "filibustering" (illegal private military expeditions against foreign countries) and has written three books and many articles on the subject. His book Manifest Destiny's Underworld was recognized as a "Choice Outstanding Academic Title" and is being translated into Spanish. Dr. May lectures widely on the subject of filibustering, and he is a member of the Camp Tippecanoe Civil War Round Table.