Staff information, Documentary Projects
The Documentary Center and Media Production staff have years of experience in broadcast techniques and technology—three producer/directors and one full-time videographer who are experts in the technical aspects of production and who have experience training students. Included on our staff are a part-time documentary film maker and two part-time feature filmmakers. We also have technical and IT staff already in place to deal with those aspects of production and documentary projects that most programs don’t have access to.
Micah Ginn is an award-winning filmmaker-producer and a 1996 graduate of the University of Mississippi. After graduating from college, Micah moved to Los Angeles. While residing in Los Angeles, Micah worked in various jobs in the film industry, including casting, development, script-analyst, and on-set production. After five years in California, Ginn moved home to Mississippi and has since produced several short films as well as the feature-length documentaries The University Greys and Undefeated: The Chucky Mullins Story. Micah is also a co-director of the Oxford Film Festival and works full-time at the University of Mississippi in the Documentary Center and Media Production Department.
Matthew Graves is an award-winning filmmaker whose short and feature-length films have been shown all over the country. He has produced, written, shot, scored, edited, and directed over twenty short films, and in 2003 produced and directed his first feature film Riding the 9. His 2006 film Dummy was selected as best short comedy at the 2006 Tupelo Film Festival.
Andy Harper is the Director of the Media and Documentary Projects Center and an Instructional Assistant Professor of Journalism. Andy holds a PhD in History from Northern Arizona University and teaches history and documentary projects classes at the University of Mississippi.
Joe York is a documentary filmmaker and radio producer. With more than a dozen films to his credit he still somehow finds time to produce the blues radio show Highway 61, which airs weekly on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Joe is the author of With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside and the 2008 Oxford Film Festival awarded his film Sorry, We’re Open the Hoka Award for the best Mississippi film. Joe holds an MA degree in Southern Studies from the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.