WINNER: Summit Gold Award and Best In Show, 2018 PRSA Summit Awards.

In April of 2013, a member of The Roanoke Chapter of The American Advertising Federation asked me if I would be interested in helping with a project he had in mind. What he wanted to do was produce a movie documenting the history of advertising in Roanoke and the influence it had (and still has) throughout the region and even the country. My role would be to film some interviews. I said I would.

Nearly 30 interviews later, numerous volunteers to review and log footage, and teamwork from some of Roanoke’s top creatives and ad personnel, there now sits a large archive of stories, history, memories, and information that has become the feature length documentary “Shine: The Legacy of Roanoke’s Ad Men And Women”.

Learn more about the movie at its official web site.
Check out its IMDB listing.
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Read the press release.