Listen here. Despite a harsh year for the film production industry, a local non-profit production company is reporting it’s coming out of 2020 with multiple projects in every stage of development.
Springfield-based Carbon Trace Productions has several projects underway, from a film following Vietnam War veterans revisiting an old battleground to a collection of interviews with students and teachers during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Behind these films are teams made almost entirely of student interns, with oversight from board members, like Carbon Trace Productions founder and Missouri State University professor Andy Cline.
“COVID tried hard to kill us, but we had a great 2020 as it turned out. We’ll end up offering up to eight internships this year, our donations are up, and we even picked up a commercial job that we’re finishing up that we’re happy about. So, I’m looking forward to a very strong 2021 coming off of a harrowing, bu