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 JAMES  R U T E N B E C K  
 
 INDEPENDENT PRODUCER & EDITOR  
 
   
 
 
PORTFOLIO      
         
  DIRECTOR / PRODUCER      
   

 

Scenes from a Parish (2009, 85 minutes)
In a hard-pressed American city, nine Catholics face obstacles that threaten to break apart the fellowship they seek.

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Not Just a Paycheck
(2008, 30 minutes)
Unnatural Causes, PBS
Vital Pictures & California Newsreel
The health consequences of the loss of 3000 jobs in a small Michigan town

   
   

 

Luminous Garden (2003)
Art Close-Up, WGBH, Boston
Installation Artist Beth Galston

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Raise the Dead (1999, 54 minutes)
Itinerant evangelists practice the holiness tradition in the shadow of televangelism

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Losing Ground (1989, 57 minutes)
A struggling farm family finds hope in the visit of a Presidential candidate.

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Reggie Gibson (2004)
Art Close-Up, WGBH, Boston

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Roberto Clemente (2008)
American Experience (PBS)

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Melville Herskovits (in-progress)
Hour-long documentary about the pioneering cultural anthropologist
Vital Pictures for ITVS

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