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Independent filmmaker Alex Zacarias, owner of 3N Productions, partnered with Dean Thomas, director of Educational Television Productions of Northeast Wisconsin in producing this documentary. The result is part crime drama, with investigators and lawyers sharing behind-the-scenes insight; part training manual for educators; and part testimonial for students and teachers frustrated that a proud school got an unfair rap.
“We had to earn the students’ trust,” Zacarias recalls, “and we did that by literally hanging out with them for most of the school year. We were in classes, in the halls, at pep rallies, at games, right through to commencement.”
To learn more about the documentary film, watch and listen to interviews from the producers on the making of the film.
From left to right: Producers Dean Thomas & Alex Zacarias, Director of Photography Ray Ibsen
Alex Zacarias
Selected as “Fifty People You Should Know” by the Green Bay Business Journal, Alex is an Emmy Award Winning Television Producer and Filmmaker with over sixteen years experience in writing, producing, directing, and editing of English and Spanish language television programming including documentaries, news, adult/children's educational series, and corporate/industrial videos. He is the owner of 3N Productions — promoting people and programs through visual images — Alex spends his days capturing the stories of our community.
Dean Thomas
Dean Thomas has been with Educational Television Productions of Northeast Wisconsin (ETP-NEW) since its inception as The Center For Television Production over thirty years ago. Mr. Thomas has distinguished himself as producer, director and writer in a variety of styles and formats, including multi camera music and drama production, cultural and issue oriented documentaries, as well as educational and instructional programs and series. His work as been recognized countless times by such organizations as the Chicago, New York and Milan Film Festivals, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Gabriel Awards and The Midwest Emmys. He has worked on programs broadcast nationally on PBS including, The Grandstand Franchise, Menominee and The Inside Story with Slim Goodbody. Performance programs produced and directed by Mr. Thomas such as An Evening with David Brubeck and Step Into My Dream with the David Parson’s Dance Company and the Billy Taylor Trio have been aired on PBS affiliates throughout the United States. His documentaries are routinely distributed nationally and internationally by agencies such as the Agency for Instructional Technology.
Alex Zacarias
Dean Thomas