ECU class production to air on UNC-TV | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: The author of this post, Crystal Baity, is a contributor to ECU News Services.

    An East Carolina University student-made film about the mysterious Lost Colony is the first of several ECU productions expected to debut on UNC-TV.


ECU graduate Ryan Shackleford films the Elizabeth II, a replica of a 1500’s sailing vessel, near Manteo in fall 2014 as part of his class film, “A Colony Lost.”

    "A Colony Lost" - a documentary about North Carolina's first English settlers and their disappearance from Roanoke Island - will air at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7 on UNC-EX.

    "Folks are intrigued by the story of the Lost Colony. We thought it was a film that would be interesting to our viewers," said Shannon Vickery, director of production at UNC-TV. "It was a really well told story and the production values were excellent."

    While the ECU students who made the film have graduated, "A Colony Lost" became the model for subsequent projects in associate professor Michael Dermody's film production course in the School of Art and Design.

    This fall, Dermody's class shot "Love in War: The Blalock Story," a true story about a North Carolina woman, Sarah Malinda Pritchard Blalock, who joined the Confederate Army disguised as a man to be close to her husband during the Civil War.


In December, ECU students met with Shannon Vickery, director of production at UNC-TV, to view a rough cut of “Love in War: The Blalock Story,” a true story about a North Carolina woman who, disguised as a man, joined the Confederate Army to be close to her husband during the Civil War. Pictured left to right are ECU students Maia Swan, McKenzie Shelton, Audra Entzi, Delaney Searles, Chanel Wang, Kiwii McLaurin and Kayah Oluronbi with Vickery (in the green jacket in foreground).