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PHIL COURTER

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GAY COURTER

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SPECIALIZING IN MEDIA ABOUT CHILDREN 'S ISSUES AND STRENGTHENING FAMILIES

DIRECTOR/EDITOR PHILIP COURTER

Director/Editor Philip Courter has primary credit on over 125 films and videos on a wide range of subject matter. Phil is especially experienced in working with human interest subjects, and has directed numerous award-winning programs dealing with environmental and family life issues. Among public television projects, he has directed a highly acclaimed series on Florida's environment, and a one-hour special, Where's My Chance? The Case for Our Children, which has been distributed to 350 stations nationwide. In 1989, Courter Films, in association with WEDU/Tampa, completed a series of three documentary films entitled The Florida Water Story, which received common carriage on all of Florida's PBS stations. They are currently being distributed on an underwritten basis to the state's public and private secondary school science students.

Phil is the author of a textbook on film production titled, Capturing the Image: 16mm Cinematography (Van Nostrand, 1982). He produced films and taught filmmaking at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, and continues to lecture on documentary film/videomaking at the high school and university levels.

Phil's many interests include flying airplanes (instrument rating) and the design and construction of many innovative devices including underwater camera housings, aerial camera systems, camera cranes &dollies, a silent reflex film camera, a 10-plate horizontal film editing system, not to mention many musical instruments, small boats, and house additions. He is an accomplished bluegrass musician.

His community service includes an appointment by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles to serve on the Health and Human Services Board for central Florida's District 13, where he was elected Vice Chairman and has been chairman of the Standing Committee for Children and Families for eight years until it was disbanded by the legislature.

Phil Courter's PBS documentary on children's issues won the Best Documentary award from the Louis Wolfson Media Center in Miami, and a Regional Emmy award for Best Documentary from the National Academy for the Television Arts and Sciences. In 1995,Phil also received the Southern Region Board Leadership Award from the Child Welfare League of America for his volunteer child advocacy efforts.

Phil and his wife Gay are the proud parents of two sons, Blake and Joshua, and a daughter, Ashley, who was adopted from foster care at age 12. Blake, an engineering graduate of Princeton University, is a consultant in the design software business. Joshua, who has a degree in ethnographic film from Hampshire College, is a filmaker, designer, and fine furniture craftsman. Ashley is in the honors program at Eckerd College and also gives speeches and appearances as an advocate for adoption. She is writing her life story under contract to a New York publisher.

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