NEWS

2020

We continue to work with our producer  partners to develop and deliver broadcast  programming for Public Televison locally and  nationally. Treasures Inside the Museum is a  local series currently in production and airs on Rhode Island PBS. Other new documentaries include The Patriot From Kings County and a three part series Where The River Meets The Sea. 2015 started with the broadcast premiere of "Carved From Stone:Legacy of A Granite Town" on Rhode Island PBS. Ocean State Video is pleased to continue working with the WWII Foundation  having completed production on 22 documentaries for American Public Television. Additionally we partnered with new producers creating documentaries on Austin T. Levy and another on the history of Architecture in Providence. 2014 began with the broadcast premiere of our Watch Hill documentary. In May and June we went back to Normanady, France for the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion to shoot “Omaha Beach: Honor and Sacrifice”  and in December we travelled to Luxembourg to shoot “The American St. Nick”. 2013 brought us to Hawaii and the Philppines in April to shoot a documentary about an amazing escape from a POW camp in WWII and how it changed the war. "4-4-43" premiered in Texas in November. In September we went to Belgium with the daughter of a WWII pilot to follow her as she met some of the people who helped her father to escape capture after his plane was shot down. "Above and Beyond" is scheduled for release in 2014. In April of 2012 we returned to Auschwitz in Poland with a survivor of that horrific concentration camp. "A Promise to My Father" is now running nationally on PBS stations. In June we traveled to Normandy for the anniversary of D-Day and the dedication of a new statue honoring leadership. On that same trip we also filmed for another WWII documentary about 2 medics who set up camp in a small village church and treated both American and German wounded.  "Dick Winters: Hang Tough" and "Eagles of Mercy" are now both airing on PBS stations around the country. Throughout the year we filmed Waterfire events for a television special and DVD. We are also working to expand the broadcast reach of "Covered Bridges of New England". RIPBS aired our covered bridge documentary in the first quarter of 2011. In May, we followed WWII vet James "Maggie" Megellas back to Europe and followed his footsteps through France, Belgium, Holland and all the way to Berlin, Germany. We finished the year with the completion and premiere of another doc based on the Museum of WWII in Natick, MA., narrated by Dan Aykroyd. In 2010 Ocean State Video was honored with 2 more Emmy Awards for our work on "Navy Heroes of Normandy" and "When the Red's Rules the Roost". "Covered Bridges of New England" saw it's broadcast premiere in December on WGBH in Boston and WGBY in Springfield. In 2009, Ocean State Video was nominated for 3 Emmy Awards. Two for our documentary "Teens on a Mission" and a third for "The Impact of Your Choice". We continue to shoot most of our projects in High Definition, including a documentary recently released on  breast cancer, a documentary about a camp for children with cancer and another about  Lighthouse Keeper Ida Lewis. We are also in the early stages of our 3rd documentary project for Johnson & Wales University. DVD's of "When the REDS Ruled the Roost" are now available from rocjo.com. Have you seen the trailer for the Warwick Musical Theatre? We are working on that project too. "Navy Heroes of Normandy", our most recent D-Day doc will start playing in France on June 6th, the 65th anniversary of the invasion. 2008 was a success. We acquired a Panasonic HPX500 P2HD camera enabling us to shoot more High Definition today and into the future. We completed a documentary following local students on a  mission to Jamaica  and another documentary that followed the creation of a memorial dedicated to the Navy service on D-Day. This premiered in New Orleans at the World War II museum on November 14th and is now available on DVD.

Returning to Auschwitz

We travel with the WWII Foundation around the world bringing veterans back to battlefields they fought in during World War II. By far the most emotional trip was in 2012 returning to Auschwitz with holocaust survivor Izzy Arbeiter. It was an honor to walk through the concentration camp with him as he recalled so many memories of the horror he witnessed there.

Assignment PWCVB

Ocean State Video is please to have been selected by the PWCVB to create videos that promote tourism in the Providence Warwick area. We live in a beautiful part of the planet and it’s been great to capture and share that with the world. Click on this picture to check out the video for yourself.