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Early Farming in Martin County:
An Historical Account of Florida’s Martin County Farming Industry
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Produced by Martin County TV (MCTV) and University of Florida IFAS – 2017
Scriptwriter for Introduction – LYNANNE ROCKHILL
Director – RALPH VILLANI / MCTV
Introduction Narrator – Open & Segments – FRED BURKEY
Producers – RALPH VILLANI, FRED BURKEY (Univ. of Florida IFAS),
JIM OVERTON (former Co-Owner of the Stuart News),
and BOB WHITTY (Florida Agricultural Representative)
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MCTV Presents: Early Agriculture of Martin County – Introduction
Early Agriculture of Martin County – Flower Farming
Early Agriculture of Martin County – Dairy Farming
Early Agriculture of Martin County – Cattle
Early Agriculture of Martin County – Citrus Farming

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CINDY AWARDS are presented to those individuals and groups who have produced programming that achieve the highest levels of excellence in production value and message effectiveness.

For 2015 regional and international events, over 9,800 entries from around the globe were judged, covering 167+ subject-matter categories of media. Types of programs included websites, videos, mobile apps, podcasts, webinars, films, commercials, documentaries, music videos, and more.

The USS DRUM’s story is a tribute to the brave men who served … 27 kills … 13 war patrols … 12 battle stars … and over 80,000 tons of steel on the ocean floor.

Climb inside the USS DRUM 228 and meet the men who served during 13 WWII combat missions. Relive its history as it unfolded aboard the world’s oldest Gato Class diesel submarine. The USS DRUM and her crew were the first to arrive at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941 and, later, outlasted a depth charge attack that critically cracked its hull. This 70-minute documentary features never before seen interviews with her crew who faced dangerous and unknown challenges – including death – and survived to tell about it.

Director & Editor  _  RALPH VILLANI
Scriptwriter  _  LYNANNE ROCKHILL
Director of Photography  _  JON SCHELLENGER
Additional Cinematography  _  ROB NORRIS
Sound Engineer  _  ROB NORRIS
Music Arrangement  _ RALPH VILLANI

PRODUCERS

Ralph Villani    Rob Norris    Jon Schellenger    Michael Teusch
George Schellenger    Lynanne Rockhill 

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS

USS DRUM 228 Museum | Tom Bowser | Leslie Waters
Mighty Moments Motion Pictures
Saturn Sound Studios
Cinematic Motion Pictures
EyeOnDigital 

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It was September 1944 when one of the U.S. Navy’s wolf-pack submarines, U.S.S. SEAVIPER, received a covert order to rescue an American airplane crew that went down near Sumatra. While recovering the downed airplane survivors on a small nearby island, the U.S.S. SEAVIPER crew discovered Japanese and Germans together on the island. The Germans had a converted minelaying U-234 submarine as a long-range cargo sub that could travel across the Pacific Ocean which carried a cargo of crates marked U-235. The Germans were delivering the crates to the Japanese. Why was U-235 so important? And could SEAVIPER get the enemies’ plan back to SUBCOMPAC before it was too late?

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Original story, playwright, and screenwriter | Play produced Off-Off-Broadway, NYC, 1997
Drama/short feature – 1999 – NY International Independent Film & Video Festival /
1999 Telly Award
3mpictures.com

One Zero Zero and Closing is a story of two U.S. veterans – Victor, a homeless Vietnam vet, and, Phillip, an injured Iraqi War vet. Victor lived alone on the streets of a large city and Phillip lived with his wife and daughter in a comfortable home. While on leave recovering from his combat injury, Phillip’s mother passed away. His father reluctantly revealed to him the long-held secret that he was adopted as a baby. The news shocked Phillip. But he knew he had to go and search for what was left of his lost family, if any. His journey led him to a stranger called Victor. The two men faced each other for the first time on a city park bench; each confronted a lost truth, a lost love, and renewed hope.

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CRYING WHISPERS 
Screenwriter | Feature Film
Drama/Light Comedy 
Silver Award – 1997 Philadelphia Film Festival

Crying Whispers is a story of a peculiar family whose adult members had difficulty relating to each other. Then one weekend, they all found themselves together at their father’s home. Each had their own reason for being there, and the inevitable disputes that arose between them revealed hidden schemes and troubles. They each had to find a way to adapt and behave rationally in order to resolve their differences but, unfortunately, not before the breaking point.                                                                                               

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IRSP – Window to the Past
Documentary on the history of Indian Riverside Park, Stuart, Florida
Documentary was time-capsuled for 100 years
by Martin County Board of County Commissioners