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Award-winning local film producer Lou Reda will discuss and preview his company’s current documentary film projects 7 p.m. Friday, June 15, in Limburg Theater, as a fundraiser for the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society. Reda’s son, Scott, also a producer, and director Sammy Jackson will join him.
The program will help raise money for the society’s new museum in the former Sigal building on the 300 block of Northampton Street in Easton. The group embarked on a $5 million capital campaign last year to aid in the renovation of the Sigal site. The event is open to the public with a requested donation of $25 per person ($20 for NCHGS members and $10 for students). For tickets, call NCHGS at (610) 253-1222.
Lou Reda Productions of Easton is internationally recognized as one of the country’s outstanding documentary filmmakers. The company, which regularly produces programs of the highest quality for cable and network television, is best known for documentaries exploring events that have shaped the modern world and for its biographies, including a series of programs spotlighting performing artists, especially contemporary music icons.
The production team will discuss upcoming documentaries on a variety of subjects including famous warships, hippies, the battle for chocolate supremacy, and efforts to stop poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.
Attendees can preview the “Hero Ships” series on famous military vessels, such as the battleship New Jersey and the Nautilus submarine, and “Hippies,” which examines the counterculture movement of the 1960s to early 1970s. “Chocolate Wars” explores competitiveness in the chocolate industry.
The program on opium poppies, which are used to make heroin, is being produced in conjunction with former CBS anchor Dan Rather for the “Dan Rather Reports” program. Done in cooperation with the U.S. State Department, the show examines efforts to halt poppy production in Afghanistan.
In the 30 years since its founding, Lou Reda Productions has made more than 400 cable and network programs as well as numerous shorts and special presentations for networks such as The History Channel, A&E, and The Biography Channel. Some of the programs include; Eyewitness In Iraq; The Last Day of WWI: 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour; When Cowboys Were King; The Day the Towers Fell; and The Blue and The Gray miniseries, which appeared on CBS.
Reda has received numerous awards and recognitions including many Emmy nominations. In 2005, the company garnered three out of the 14 nominations received by the History Channel—two for Eyewitness in Iraq.
Reda was also recently honored by Lafayette at the College’s 172nd Commencement exercises Saturday, May 19, where he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts.