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Linda Haskins

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Linda K. (Sam) Haskins is an American writer and director of industrial, sponsored, and documentary films, particularly associated with Centron Films.



Career[edit]

Haskins worked as a writer and director for Centron Films in Lawrence, Kansas. In an interview in 2001, she was quoted as saying that Centorn had an atmosphere that fostered creativity: "[1]

In 1987 she founded her own production company, Take Ten, Inc.

Among her productions are documentaries exploring personal stories such as Through My Sights, a program featuring a World War II armored car gunner’s photos and experiences in Europe aired on PBS.[2] Crawfish and Freys, a depiction of an intergenerational Cajun family in Louisiana; and Henry D. Remple: Finding Hope in Troubled Times, a 98-year-old Russian Mennonite immigrant’s message for children who have experienced trauma, as he did escaping the Russian Revolution at age seven. A video drama on women s reproductive rights, Words of Choice. Her current production is a baseball history program for public television.

Her workcovers children’s television including producer/director credits for the acclaimed PBS Reading Rainbow series, and documentaries for Kansas Public Television such as Kansas Kids: Make It Matter, and Deadly Fumes. Her current production is Lucky 13: Kansas City Athletics Baseball 1955-1967 for release on public television.

Filmography[edit]

  • Halloween Safety (Second Edition) (1985)
  • If You Knew How I Feel: Brad's Learning Disability (1982)
  • Through My Sights: A GUnner's View of WWII
  • Crawfish and Freys (1996)
  • Henry D. Remple: Finding Hope in Troubled Times (2007)
  • Lucky 13: Kansas City Athletics Baseball 1955-1967 (in production)

References[edit]

  1. Hediger, Vinzenz; Vonderau, Patrick (2009). Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-8964-013-0. Search this book on
  2. "Local WWII film goes national". LJWorld.com. Retrieved 2024-01-22.


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