The KET Fund for Independent Production

New and Completed Projects

These KFIP projects are now in production:

Previous Grants

  • a historical overview of Kentucky’s Jewish heritage by Larry Magnes of Louisville
  • a remembrance of the long-running radio show National Barn Dance by Stephen Parry of Lexington
  • a history of Churchill Weavers by Tara Bellando of Mount Vernon
  • a comic drama about neighbors by Archie Borders of Louisville
  • a profile of sculptor Ed Hamilton by Joan Brannon of Lexington
  • a biography of Cassius M. Clay by Michael Anthony Breeding of Lexington
  • a follow-up to his film A Season in Hell, about eating disorders, by Walter Brock of Louisville
  • a historical drama about composer Antonin Dvorák by Robin Burke of Louisville
  • a documentary about how people face their own mortality by Louis Guida of Lexington
  • a history of Lexington’s African-American “freetowns” by Diane Cameron Lawrence of Louisville
  • a comic drama about The Tune Inn, the world’s only known combination auto-repair shop and supper club, by George Maranville of Versailles
  • a look at a theater project that brings Shakespeare to rural teenagers by Robert Salyer of Louisville
  • a documentary on elk restoration in the Appalachians by Bruce Skinner of Louisville
  • the story of the rise, fall, and restoration of Paducah’s Hotel Metropolitan by Terry Schmitt of Paducah

Completed Films

These KFIP-supported projects have aired on KET since 1991, are airing soon, or are to be scheduled:

  • Ambush—Joe Gray
  • Appalachia in the Academy: The Making of Eastern Kentucky Scholars—Christopher Stapel
  • At Leisure’s Edge: A Journey Through Kentucky’s Historic Black Parks—Boyd Shearer
  • Beyond the Border—Eren McGinnis and Ari Palos
  • Blood Memory: The Legend of Beanie Short—Robby Henson
  • Bourbon and Kentucky: A History Distilled—Kent Masterson Brown
  • Call to War—Dorian Walker • Monday, December 29 at 10:30/9:30 pm CT on KET1
  • Coal Black Voices—Fred Johnson and Jean Donohue (has also aired as part of KET’s Kentucky Muse series)
  • The Congress of Wonders—Ed McClanahan
  • Crazy Nate and His Wireless Telephone: The Life and Legend of Nathan B. Stubblefield—Brad Kimmel
  • Daddy, Am I Stupid? The Dyslexia Dilemma—Michelle LaRock
  • ... damn bad oyster: The Times of William Goebel, Governor—Sean Anderson • Thursday, January 29 at 10:00/9:00 pm CT and Saturday, January 31 at 3:00/2:00 am CT on KET1
  • Duke Madison: Life and Music—Patrick McNeese
  • Dusk ’til Dawn: Kentucky Rural Drive-In Theaters—George Maranville
  • Forever Decisions: Kentucky’s Trash Trauma—Terri Pulley
  • Gethsemani—Morgan Atkinson
  • Graveyard Cleaning-Off Day—Randy Herndon
  • Green Blood Red Tears—Joe Gray
  • Hammerin’ Hank, Henry Ward: A Kentucky Original—Peter Van Howe
  • Hands On: A Year in an Eastern Kentucky Classroom—Anne Johnson/Appalshop
  • Harriet Van Meter: A Life Extraordinary—Kiley Lane and Arthur Rouse
  • Heart of the Hills—The Story of Mountain Music—Michael White
  • Highway 31—Cory Lash
  • How Joey Learned To Fly (animated short)—Edward Counts
  • If I Can’t Do It—Walter Brock
  • Immaculate Funk—Tom Thurman
  • Importing a Workforce—John Ketcham
  • Impresario—Eren McGinnis and Ari Palos
  • Incident at Uniontown—Ernest Marcum
  • Instrument Maker: Homer Ledford—Stan Petrey
  • John Tuska: Non Basta Una Vita—Arthur Rouse and Seth Tuska
  • The Kentucky Theatre—Eren McGinnis and Ari Palos
  • A Kentucky Treasure: The J.D. Crowe Story—Russell Farmer
  • Kentucky’s Gift—Stan Petrey
  • Kentucky’s Ohio River Towns—Cory Lash
  • LAND (and how it gets that way)—Walter Brock
  • The Land Called ... Fort Knox—Cory Lash
  • A Lasting Thing for the World—Heather Lyons
  • Laura Clay: Voice of Change—Heather Lyons
  • M&M Smith: For Posterity’s Sake—Heather Lyons
  • Made and Bottled in Kentucky—Charles Cowdery
  • Maxine (aired as part of Wilgus Stories)—Andy Garrison
  • Metro, Act One—Morgan Atkinson
  • Mother Love—Christine Fugate and Eren McGinnis
  • Of Myth and Muse: Stephen Foster and My Old Kentucky Home—Patrick McNeese
  • On Bended Knees: The Night Rider Story—Brad Kimmel
  • Pharaoh’s Army—Robby Henson
  • Rock That Uke—Sean Anderson and William Preston Robertson
  • Rosine: The Legacy of Uncle Pen—Dan Hays
  • Saddles and Silks: A Jockey’s Story—Michelle LaRock
  • Seven Sisters—Patrick Donohew • (See Patrick’s update on the sisters for more about their lives since the film was shot.)
  • Shakertown: Into a More Perfect Order—Michael Breeding
  • Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton—Morgan Atkinson • Sunday, December 14 at 10:00/9:00 pm CT on KET1; Monday, December 15 at 2:00/1:00 am CT; Tuesday, December 16 at 4:00/3:00 am CT; and Sunday, December 28 at 10:00/9:00 pm CT on KET2
  • The Southern Sex—Christine Fugate
  • Spirit of the Land—Steve Barger
  • The Spirituals—Eren McGinnis and Ari Palos
  • Summerstock—Robby Henson
  • Third Lives in the First World—Joshua Shapero
  • Tobacco Blues—Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate
  • Tod Browning: Master of the Macabre—Tom Marksbury
  • Top That One! (animated short)—Edward Counts
  • Under Kentucky Skies: 25 Years of Kentucky’s Music Weekend—Loren Crawford and Stephan Mazurek
  • A Walk Through Kentucky Wildflowers—Britt Davis
  • A Way of Life: Basketball in Kentucky—Morgan Atkinson
  • The World of Clay Lancaster—Stan Petrey
  • You Ain’t Seen Nothin’: Tales from the Kentucky Derby (distributed nationally under the title Tales of the Kentucky Derby: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’)—Louis Guida
  • Zoetropics (animated shorts)—Edward Counts