Melody Lewis-Kane

Producer, Special Segment

Melody is a potter, arts educator and filmmaker and is the primary consultant/co-producer on all arts and education films produced by Kane-Lewis Productions.  She was the producer of the documentary M.C. Richards: The Fire Within, selected for 12 film festivals winning Best Film at the Image Gazer Film Festival, and produced a series of arts–in-education teacher training films for the John F. Kennedy Center Education Department. Melody produced and co-wrote Arts & History: Storytelling funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Kennedy Center Education Department.

She is the author of four arts-in-education curriculum guides including the guide that accompanies the Maine Masters film Stephen Pace: Maine Master, a film that was nominated for a New England Emmy Award. In collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education she developed the Ashley Bryan Resource & Activity Guide for Teachers and Librarians as a companion to their film I Know a Man … Ashley Bryan.