Micah Ginn is an award-winning filmmaker-producer and a 1996 graduate of the University of Mississippi. After graduating from college, Micah moved to Los Angeles. While residing in Los Angeles, Micah worked in various jobs in the film industry, including casting, development, script-analyst, and on-set production. After five years in California, Ginn moved home to Mississippi and has since produced several short films as well as the feature-length documentaries The University Greys and Undefeated: The Chucky Mullins Story. Micah is also a co- director of the Oxford Film Festival. He also has a fondness for red sport coats and sunglasses.

Matthew Graves is an award-winning filmmaker whose short and feature-length films have been shown all over the country. He has produced, written, shot, scored, edited, and directed over twenty short films, and in 2003 produced and directed his first feature film Riding the 9. His 2006 film Dummy was selected as best short comedy at the 2006 Tupelo Film Festival and he is the reigning department Christmas Party Wii boxing champion.  Matthew holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Communication from Hardin-Simmons University and recently completed a Master’s degree in Modern Languages from the University of Mississippi.

Andy Harper is the Director of the Media and Documentary Projects Center and an Instructional Assistant Professor of Journalism. Andy holds a PhD in History from Northern Arizona University and teaches history and documentary classes at the University of Mississippi. Andy is the executive producer of each project, which really means that he works hard to make sure everyone has what they need and to bring order out of the chaos that is Media and Documentary Projects.

Karen Tuttle is our Administrative Coordinator and the reason the train stays on the track. Karen has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the University of Mississippi. In addition to keeping us straight, Karen handles all accounts information and schedules special events. She has also been known to pick up a camera in a pinch.  Karen has the most tenure of anyone on staff here and has made a solemn vow to take the title of Wii boxing champion away from Matthew Graves next year.

Sunder Upadhyay’s title says Telecommunications Analyst III. We aren’t  sure what that means exactly, but this native of Nepal is in charge of making sure all of the Media and Documentary Project Center’s computers can edit and all of the websites can show you the results of our labors.  You wouldn’t be reading this blog without him.  Oh, and Sunder is also in charge of all the University of Mississippi Division of Outreach IT for four campuses.  He doesn’t sleep much!

Joe York is a documentary filmmaker and radio producer. With more than a dozen films to his credit he still somehow finds time to produce the blues radio show Highway 61, which airs weekly on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Joe is the author of With Signs Following: Photographs from the Southern Religious Roadside and the 2008 Oxford Film Festival awarded his film Sorry, We’re Open the Hoka Award for the best Mississippi film. Joe holds an MA degree in Southern Studies from the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, but his true love is Aubie.