Current Projects
Women in Science
This documentary focuses on women of all ages who have chosen career paths in the STEM fields. We follow the inspiring stories of a few girls and women in their quest to compete at the world's highest levels in science, technology, engineering, and math. They pursue questions, subvert expectations, and challenge perceptions.
We are working with principal investigators Wendy Williams, Professor of Human Development, and Stephan Ceci, Professor of Developmental Psychology, at Cornell University. The project is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health.
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Checkpoints Stories
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) launched the Checkpoints Story Contest in the spring of 2011. The contest invites writers from around the world to submit short essays, stories, or poems on the theme of "checkpoints." Park Productions is adapting several of these stories to screens of all sizes. The series will launch at EngageMedia.org - an online video sharing site that focuses on social justice and environmental issues.
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Performing the Score
Performing the Score is an educational DVD about the expressive qualities of early pianos and the baroque violin, and how these qualities affect the performance of classical music. Park Productions produced the video for Malcolm Bilson, Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music at Cornell University. The project is being supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
"This DVD is truly inspiring — a completely lucid and authoritative look at the connections between the great composers and the instruments that they worked with."
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Finger Lakes Uncorked!
Uncorked is a webisode series created to engage communities around local food, wine, and the natural beauty of the Finger lakes. The series tells the story of an amateur winemaker who plots to revive his marriage and bank account by winning an organic wine competition.
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Ithaca Area Waste Water Treatment Video Series
This series of videos gives viewers an in-depth look at the process of cleaning water and returning it to the Cayuga Lake watershed. The purpose of the video series is to educate community members about how the water they use is treated and returned to the Ithaca area watershed.
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The Naturalist Outreach Video Series
The Naturalist Outreach Project is a series of short videos made to inspire children to learn scientific facts about animals, plants, and insects. The on-screen experts are Cornell University students; the filmmakers are Ithaca College students. Dr. Linda Rayor from the Cornell department of Entomology, who appears in the Discovery Channel’s Monster Bug Wars, is teaching Cornell students about how to bring science to young people using media. Ithaca College seniors Alyssa Traitz, Michael Belmonte and Andrew Inglin designed and created the media elements by working with the Park Media Lab.
Plumfield Iraq Documentary
Cynthia Henderson, Professor of Theater Arts, and Carol Jennings, Director of the Park Media Lab, and their students are collaborating on a special documentary project that explores the process of transforming experience into an expressive art. The documentary focuses on the staging of “Plumfield Iraq,” a play about eight American high school students who experience the war, some from a distance and some up close. The documentary follows theater arts students and members of the design team as they participate in the process of getting a play ready for opening night. Students from cinema and theater worked closely together and compared practices in their respective fields.
