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Shea Shackelford
Shea Shackelford

Independent Producer

Shea Shackelford is an independent producer in Montreal and co-founder of Big Shed, an audio and multimedia production shop. He created Place + Memory – a public media project mapping a landscape of remembered places. Shackelford is also a media educator and an annual producer-in-residence at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. When not producing his own work, he’s assisting educators, organizations, artists and other producers in using sound and storytelling to spread their own ideas. Shackelford is an alum of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.


FROM Shea Shackelford

Separated by Birth
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Separated by Birth Two stories about families who have been driven apart... David Ellis Dickerson’s mission to save his family from a faith he considers hypocritical and dangerous. Also, Carol Brobeck and Joel Woodruff recount the adoption and reunion that defines their relationship.

28 min, 30 sec Nov 09, 2010

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28 min, 31 sec Jan 11, 2019

Rethinking public school funding in California
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Rethinking public school funding in California LAUSD teachers are striking for the second day. Many people are questioning the state’s model for funding schools. California spends around $10,800 per pupil, which is less than the national average. But maybe that money could be better spent if the district itself were smaller and more manageable.

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LAUSD teachers strike starts -- how long will it last?
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LAUSD teachers strike starts -- how long will it last? Thirty-one thousand LAUSD teachers, nurses, librarians, and counselors went on strike this morning. They want a salary increase, smaller class sizes, and the hiring of more staff. The district says it can’t afford all that. We see what happened on the picket lines.

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How to build a better commercial break Prime pods, countdown clocks and more! Even in the age of streaming and video on demand, networks are still trying to find new ways to deal with an old-school problem.

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