Carbon Trace Productions is a documentary/educational organization founded by Dr. Andrew Cline, a professor of media and journalism at Missouri State University. Carbon Trace is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to documentary education for college students.
The production crew finished its first feature-length project in 2016 — Downtown — a documentary film about Americans’ emerging trend of moving away from the suburbs searching for a new American Dream in re-developing urban centers. “Downtown” screened at the 2016 New Urbanism Film, winning the Best Urban Sociology Film category award. The team also produced a documentary short related to Downtown” Shared Spaces — an official selection at the 2015 New Urbanism Film Festival.
Post-production has begun on a second feature-length documentary the team started filming in 2017 about Syrian refugee children’s emerging mental health issues. The team finished three documentary shorts from 2017 to 2018 — Souriyat, the story of a rehabilitation facility in Amman, Jordan serving Syrian refugees, and Joonyper, a tragic death by heroin overdose. “Souriyat” screened at the 2018 Atlanta Docfest. CTP also produced “Homeschooling in Middle America” in 2018, a film by Chinese student filmmaker Yiran Liu.
Zero, our student production for 2019, won the Award of Excellence for a student documentary feature at the Broadcast Education Association 2020 Festival of Arts. Our latest feature-length film, Witness at Tornillo, toured nationally during the fall and winter of 2019-2020. It won “Best Feature Documentary” at the Kansas City FilmFest International 2020. It is now available on Vimeo on Demand.
Carbon Trace is currently in production of All of a Sudden and post-production on Witness at the Border, Songs From the Street, “Drive-Ins Aren’t Dead,” “Syrian Doctor” (Working Title), and “A Vietnam Peace Story.”
At Carbon Trace Productions, many of our documentary films feature humanitarian service organizations or individuals working to make the world a better place. Humanitarian service is half our dual nonprofit mission, and we take pride in focusing on stories like these:
2020
“Witness at Tornillo” won Best Feature Documentary Film at the Kansas City FilmFest International
2019
“Zero” won the Award of Excellence for the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Arts