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SHIRLEY ROAD PRODUCTIONS is an award-winning, non-profit (501)(c)(3), independent video/film production company, based in Philadelphia. Founded by public television professionals in 1991, the company’s mission is to create educational and cultural programs that are innovative in content, point of view and production. The company's creative team has over thirty years combined experience in developing and producing programs for public television. Major documentaries include the Cine Golden Eagle award winning BALLYCASTLE (2004), the Emmy and Gabriel award winning AN ANGEL IN THE VILLAGE (1999), and the ITVS supported CINE award winning MIRROR DANCE. MIRROR DANCE premiered nationally in 2005 on the Emmy Award winning PBS series INDEPENDENT LENS in 2005. Please visit “Productions” for more information. SHIRLEY ROAD PRODUCTIONS also provides video services that expand the communications activities of non-profit educational, community and advocacy organizations. Many of these works have won awards and have been broadcast. Please visit “Partners / Collaborators” for more information. SHIRLEY ROAD PRODUCTIONS is a member of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Other affiliations include The Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association (PIFVA); International Documentary Association; Society of Professional Journalists, Greater Philadelphia Chapter FRANCES McELROY, the founder and Executive Director of Shirley Road Productions, has produced and directed a wide range of award-winning documentaries, as well as educational and cultural videos for various non-profit organizations. Before becoming independent in 1991, she worked for ten years for WHYY (PBS Philadelphia) as Director of Program Development and as an Emmy award-winning producer. Her public television program credits range from live public hearings and studio talk programs, to documentaries -- including PHILADELPHIA'S ED BACON, about the renowned city planner, which was narrated by journalist Cokie Roberts, and the Emmy award-winning WHO IS RED GROOMS, about the popular American artist. From June 1995 to March 1996 she was Acting General Manager of Philadelphia's WYBE-TV, where she later served as a programming and production consultant, executive producer of local production and executive producer of THROUGH THE LENS, an award-winning, curated series of independent film and video works. In 1987/1988, she directed the international public television INPUT conference which was hosted by WHYY, the Annenberg School of Communications, Temple University's Radio, Television and Film Department, and the Neighborhood Film and Video Project of the International House of Philadelphia. She served on the INPUT American program selection committee in 1990 and 1994. She has also served as a judge for the "Set in Philadelphia" Screen writing Competition, sponsored by the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, a Corporation for Public Broadcasting proposal reviewer, a reader for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Screenwriting Fellowship, an evaluator for the ITVS Digital 99 and LInCS initiatives, and a judge for the Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards. She has been an instructor in documentary production at the Scribe Video Center and was a founding Board Member of the Philadelphia Independent Film/Video Association (PIFVA). She received a 1998 Window of Opportunity Award from the Leeway Foundation as a documentary artist and an artist's residency to attend the 40th Annual Robert Flaherty Seminar, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and sponsored by the International Film Seminars, Inc. Her B.A. in history/political science is from Rosemont College.
Shirley Road Productions - Board of Directors Frances McElroy, Executive Director M. Linda Burke, M.D., Chair
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