Selected Shows and Events

• On The Edge: Living with Epilepsy - a film by Louis Stanislaw. PBS.  Ames Productions Executive Producer
  • NOTE: Airing on PBS starting in November 2016; check local listings or call your station for details
    
• The Next 1000 Days     A documentary film on the next economy
  
• Oil ShockWave             A documentary for PBS 
  
• Treasures of the Library of Congress         A national PBS special
  
• The Man, Energy and the Environment Project        14 Prime-Time lives for PBS and universities
  
• Clean Cities       A series of one hour specials on Sustainable Cities, for Public Television
  
• The Future of the Electric Car: Live from Disney's EPCOT Innoventions Center in Orlanda, FL
  
• You Are Your Child’s First Teacher: ETS & Florida Dept. of Education
  

Current projects include:

• Thriving In Place: An Exploration of the Good Life After 50
  
• Saving Claire Fall Prevention Project Currently in Florida: Tampa Bay, Jacksonville & Palm Beach regions: National roll-out in September, 2022.
  
• Next 1000 Days
  
• Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Still Making Waves A look at the extraordinary life and work of the groundbreaking artist
  

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Clients & Sponsors

AT&T, Ford, GM, The U.S. Dept. of Energy, The Tides Foundation, The Hewlett Foundation, The Jefferson Energy Foundation, Photon Consulting, Xerox, S.A.F.E., The Library of Congress, The Educational Testing Service, Florida Power & Light, The State of Florida, Chevron, Deloitte… to name a few.

​Some History...

Rainie and Chris Ames, founders of Ames Productions, are film-makers and communications consultants with more than 35 years of experience in television, communications and media. Their 35+ national program credits include:

• Treasures of the Library of Congress  Nationwide Prime Time PBS Documentary
• Oil Shockwave with Judy Woodruff  Nationwide Prime Time PBS Documentary
• Man, Energy & The Environment Fifteen Nationwide Multi-Location Live Interactive Documentary Events
  
• On The Edge: Living with Epilepsy Nationwide PBS Documentary
  

Reaching millions of viewers with compelling & critical topics, Ames’ programming has received the extremely rare & coveted “Recommended for Viewing” endorsement from the National Education Association and was recognized with a White House award from the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.

Ames Productions has produced and directed Senators, Secretaries of State, Defense, Energy, EPA, Treasury, The Library of Congress, Stanford, MIT, Duke University, editors, publishers, Pulitzer Prize recipients, academics, CEOs, and activists in live events, documentaries, and discussion format programs.
 
Bringing the highest level thinkers and doers together, to explore solutions across a wide range of disciplines, is the hallmark of Ames Productions and its predecessor New Vision Communications.  From multi-state live debates on Nuclear Waste in the West to private screenings at the invitation of Senators Lugar and Biden for Oil Shockwave, Ames presents critical and complex issues in a way that is journalistically sound and engaging.
 

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