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Pyro / 01.07.2015

There's been some fantastic video footage coming out of the Expedition Alaska Adventure Race, and most of that has been shot and produced by the race media team, which incudes a large cohort of students and staff from the Production Master Class at the University of Cincinnati.

The Production Master Class is both an academic course and experiential learning initiative, that connects an interdisciplinary group of students and faculty at the University of Cincinnati with internationally recognized television and film professionals to produce documentaries that reach a national audience. This year’s production team that is producing the documentary for the 2015 Expedition Alaska Adventure Race is comprised of seven UC students from academic programs at three colleges at UC. The students are working in Alaska with two UC Professors and an international cadre of media professionals that includes four UC alumni.

Since 2012, the Production Master Class has involved three UC Professors, a UC alumnus, a cadre of media professionals, and over ninety students from nine different academic programs at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP), and the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences (A&S).

Developed by UC Professor Kevin Burke and UC Alumnus and Emmy award-winning producer Brian J. Leitten, the Production Master Course was made possible by a three-year grant from the University of Cincinnati’s UC Forward Collaborative, an initiative that supports experiential learning and is part of the UC Academic Master Plan. The goal was to create a transformative, “hands-on” experience for the students by taking them out of the classroom and into the field to produce the documentary series that could be distributed to a national television audience.

Over the past three years, the UC Forward grant has allowed over thirty students, from three UC colleges and nine different academic programs, to go to northern California and work alongside educators and a select crew of media in the production of a three-year documentary series about the Gold Rush Expedition Race. The series found a national broadcast distributor in Universal Sports Network, the year-round destination for Olympic and endurance sports programming, that has shown all three ninety-minute documentaries about the 2012-2014 Gold Rush Expedition Races. For more info, please visit:http://goldrushracedoc.com

The Production Master Class has made all three documentaries available through Anada Media, a leadingdistributor of action sports and adventure travel programming, to international television networks throughout the world.  

The 2013 Gold Rush Expedition Race documentary, produced by students at the University of Cincinnati, was nominated today for Best Documentary Cultural/Topical in the Professional Category of the 2015 National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Awards for the Ohio Valley Region.

To follow the Production Master Class updates from this year's Expedition Alaska Adventure Race, please the PMC Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/ucgrml13

And for more video updates from the race go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOnb46eNxfIydhjVhfnGYJQ

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